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What good is literature when your stomach hurts so much your eyes water?”
If the planting this month doesn’t go well, next winter will be even harder, and hard times make people willing to accept a man who preaches change.”
The things we say tonight will be very dangerous to hear and even more dangerous to remember. An unnecessary set of ears—no matter how pretty the head to which they are attached—will not help.”
“You are intelligent men, dear lords,” Sarene replied. “You have the brains and the experience to know that a country cannot withstand the stress that Iadon is placing on it. Arelon is not a business to be run with a grip of steel—it is much more than its production minus its costs. The dream, my lords, is an Arelon whose people work with her king, instead of against him.”
Pain lost its power when other things became more important. Kahar didn’t need a potion or an Aon to save him—he just needed something to do.
Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise—some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity often springs from strife, child.”
However, a quiet voice inside her argued that it was worth dying, if death would prove that truth was more powerful than physical strength. She had to make sure her father was never
“Truth can never be defeated, Sarene. Even if people do forget about it occasionally.”
It is hard to demonize a man after you have seen tears in his eyes as he thanks you for feeding him.”
Men often place pride before reason.”
“I suppose an optimistic comment wouldn’t do much good right now.”
I’ve noticed that those who turn away from a faith are often more hateful toward it than any outsider could be.”
I’m not going to reject Domi just because He put a fool in charge of His church; fools need to have a chance to serve too.”
I would not be averse to a little more danger if it provided me a means of living the rest of my life in peace.”
The nobility became less aristocrats and more food distributors—which, in a way, was what they should have been in the first place.
I could not know the man whose heart eventually drove him to reject all that he had once believed in the name of what he knew was right.
