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You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.
A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.
Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.
Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)
Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. - I'm not sure
With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.
Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?
Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.
I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it." She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki
I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.
Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No — if she bit him, he'd die.
If Cape wasn't your last name, what was your real one?" I asked, deathly curious now. "Ahhhh," he complained. "Pincas Huckleburr.
free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle
If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting caught.
That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way.
Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.
You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.
These mages," Kol asked, a wicked glint in his eye, "what kind of fees will they charge? Will I get a two-for-one discount, since they're twins?
She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.
So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.
I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.
I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.
I said I fell down. Ah. The ground bloodied your nose, split yer lip, and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. I said I don't want to talk about it.
He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage
The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.
I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.
When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka" she asked. "I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful," I replied.
Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?
I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future.
George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?
Now to find Tristan, if he survived the excitement. I hope he did. I have some things to say to him, and none of them are 'Goddess bless'. -Numair Salmalin
Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.
When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.