Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Have you ever fought an opponent you had no defense against? Like a fire breather or an acid spitter? Once I faced a female with diamond skin, Nix said breathlessly. I was transfixed - even as she was...

"I'm not stupid, nor a liar," I said, "and if I can't do any good, I can at least do something."

Our family has survived a long time. We've weathered battles and transformations, enchantments and floods and fires. We've endured being sent away, and we've coped with evildoers in our midst. If I...

My name is Sam Cortland … and I will not be afraid. I've been doing it for years.

Hers was not a story of darkness. This would not be the story. She would fold it into herself, this place, this fear, but it would not be the whole story. It would not be her story.

But for my home, for Prythian and the human territory and so many others … I would clean my blades, and wash the blood from my skin. And I would do it again and again and again.

I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work, and there will always be misfortunes we can't control lurking out at the edges-storms, sickness, wolves. But...

We return. We return from fighting. We return fighting. Make way for Democracy! We saved it in France, and by the Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America, or know the reason...

She told me that living life as a Prisoner was a waste of life and that freedom, even a second of freedom, was worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

You cannot say to the sun, or to the rain, To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little...

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

Because two propositions can be true at once," he said. "Because the world is imperfect. Because we are imperfect. Because sometimes we're called upon to do terrible things. And because we define...

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.