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Even in death, the great equalizer, important people pushed up better shrubbery than the rest,
A life worth dying for is a life worth living.
There was no black in my heartsglass today. But it is like droplets of blood, dripping into a bowl of fresh spring water, I thought. Mix it well enough, and you can’t see the blood. But would you drink it? Let the taste run down your throat? How can one know liquid so clear could also bear such a taint?
“You can’t honor the past if you don’t know what that past is. I would much rather know the truth than live in ignorant bliss, even if it destroys all I’ve come to believe. Tradition isn’t always honorable.
“To be perfect without suffering means no change. If you know neither hurt nor hardship, then you will not know the strength they can summon within a person. What is life’s meaning if you cannot distinguish between happiness and sorrow?”
people tend to believe those who are in charge, no matter how ridiculous or corrupt they may be,”
“We never discuss politics unless we’re at least half-drunk, Lord Kalen. That’s how we maintain our sanity.”
before you weigh your neighbor’s hogs, fix your own broken pens.”
“The road to treachery and malice has always been cobbled with the intentions of those who thought to only do what was best.”
“You can’t break the rules simply because you want to. More often than not, the rules wind up breaking you.
“I don’t want to make other people uncomfortable, but I want to be who I am, and I need to understand my pride in that before anything else.
“The best truths are always simple, I think. Life makes them complicated.
“Maddening, isn’t it? The bonds that tie us together are the same bonds preventing us from what we would sacrifice for ourselves.
“It’s never wrong to wish for more happiness,”
