We did an evil thing, father.””What do you think war is? We’re men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard’s defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible.
She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.
As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in the world, at least let it be welcome here.
It’s the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just become ghosts.
Love is like recognition. It’s the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.
There’s ways you can trust an enemy you can’t always trust a friend. An enemy’s never going to betray your trust.
To lose everything is not the worst can happen.””It’s starting again, from nothing, with nothing,” Otah said.”Is exactly this,” Maj agreed, then a moment later. “Starting again, and doing better.
I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.
I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this,
I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.
Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.
It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, being dead, they didn’t care anymore.
Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.