Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.

Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned.

Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.

If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

I don't talk with everybody because i am not everybody, i am single.

The mind is the most powerful sense.

The opening notes of a song began, some plucking of guitar strings. I knew the melody. It was Maroon 5’s “She Will Be Loved.” As pop songs went, it was pretty damn good, a bit of a favorite of mine.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

Innocence has a friend in heaven.

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

We're in need for culture change. We're going to change the way you know you look at food, sugar, sleep.

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.