When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.

It's better to make the wrong choice, " my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.

Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.

All you need to know, boy, " Finan growled, "is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins.

We should know who they are, " I said, "before we kill them. That's just being polite.

My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dresser... I was the girl who loved everything geeky.

Oh, gods. Not the flying!”“I heard you mounted my sister well enough.”“I want you never to make that statement again.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.