When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)
They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.
Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in.
If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells." --Prince Oberyn of Dorne.
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.
We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must… we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty.
old stories are like old friends (...) you have to visit them from time to time.
There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.
I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave.
Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.
Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how sweet the still small voices of the storm!
There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.
The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
We simply can’t abandon ship every time we encounter a storm in our marriage. Real love is about weathering the storms of life together.
Adelaide remembered the first storm Justinius had seen her through. She had seen many storms since then, some milder than others, some worse than the first, and the Prince had been with her, comforting her and protecting her life through each wail of...
She fully expected to see a maniacal killer raising his arms with a plastic bag in his hands to suffocate her
