But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people.

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.

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

They seemed no closer to the tops of the peaks that rose before them. It was only by looking back, to the forest far below, that she knew they'd climbed.

When you become too predictable you lose your brand's luster.

Life is sacred story.

It's an innocent kiss at first. Soft lips meeting

Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

The markets are the same now as they were five or ten years ago because they keep changing-just like they did then

I need to live like that crooked tree--... that knelt down in the hardest winds but could not be blasted away.

Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.

I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.