Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you.

A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

I have no doubt that you are more than capable of bringing the Monsean queen and my son and the rest of my sons and a hundred Nanderan kittens through an onslaught of howling raiders if you chose to.

You're afraid of your own anger.

Hidden yourself in a hole and dared to burden no one with your grievous friendship? I will have friends, Katsa. I will have a life, even though I carry this burden.

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.

He leaned heavily on the desk now, as if danger had strengthened him before and its lack now made him weak.

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a history teacher, and he loved the Russian novels. There were always books around.

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.

The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is making tunes.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

A fence to wisdom is silence.

If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know.