“If it's ka it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone”

“At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes of that blue which is the color of the sky at first light of the morning. She had time to think of...”

“A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.”

“A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.”

“and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended”

“Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in ...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”