A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.

That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face.

I know there are things you aren’t telling me. Big things…Sir, I will find out. I only hope your reasoning is good enough for me to forgive you.

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen, " he says in response.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.

Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they’re gone.

Come on, " I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.

...every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.

The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.