14 quotes found
“The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.”
“Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.”
“Assassins take no pride in fighting fairly. We take pride in winning.”
“There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.”
“I could not make it right, but I could make someone pay for how wrong it had been.”
“Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.”
“In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.”
“Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.”
“I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one...”
“What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be ve...”
“The world had to change and for some reason the prosperity of men always results in them taking ever more from wild creatures and places.”
“There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its ja...”
“Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.”
“This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.”
