311 quotes found
Fiction writer · American · 1952
American fiction writer (born 1952)
“Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.”
“Did you feel that?' I asked him.He smiled sadly. 'Fitz, I have never needed to touch you to feel that. It was always there. No limits.”
“I wish they would all go away.Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.”
“He gave a final shake of his coat. I go to the hunt!”
“I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.”
“There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.”
“And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.”
“Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. ...”
“But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair.”
“Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.”
“They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.”