Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an for your grandson.
His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But h...
The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.
Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I feeling stupid.
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific kn...
This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.
But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
