"you are fighting shadows when you should be fighting the men who cast them."
- daario, in george r.r. martin's "a dance with dragons"
"our gods gave us legs to run with, noses to smell with, hands to touch and feel. what mad cruel god would give a man eyes and tell him he must forever keep them shut, and never look at all the beauty in the world?"
- kojja, in george r.r. martin's "a feast for crows"
"the past was past; what was now, was, and must be accepted."
- robert jordan's "a crown of thorns"
Monday, July 30, 2012
"for all her brains, she saw what she wanted to see, would try to make true what she wanted to be true."
- in robert jordan's "a crown of swords"
"learn that simple civility sometimes won what honesty would surely lose."
- in robert jordan's "lord of chaos"
"...when it seemed hope was gone but you went on fighting because the cost of giving up was too great."
- in robert jordan's "lord of chaos"
Sunday, July 29, 2012
"noblewomen never had enough sense to come in out of the rain. and then they were indignant when they got wet."
