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.

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.

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.

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.

The Lord is my Saviour.

My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.