I am the sword in the darkness.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not till I'm done reading.

The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.

When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ...

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

Maddy: "Um.....William?" she said, driving up the narrow dirt road. "Is there a particular reason you keep a sword behind your backseat?" William: "Because I don't own a gun yet

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible.

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.