Jennifer A. Nielsen Quotes

Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.

It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

I never denied being a fool. That's the difference between us.

You stole it from the master.""Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back in order.

You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?""Can you do it with your left?

If he put us in dresses, we wouldn't suddenly become women

Afraid of a wooden sword?""Just demonstrating my skills in evading an attack. Impressed?

Get me a real chair

Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.

And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here.

Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I can't. Even I am not that good a liar.

I haven't don anything wrong." At least, not for a few hours

It had been a long time since i dared call anyone a friend. The concept was only theoretical to me now.

With a grin, I told her, "I'll have more than ten minutes' notice that this battle is coming. In that way, this might be the most prepared I've ever been.

Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.