Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take on step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You first took a little step off a path to avoid some rocks. For a while, you walked alongside the path, but then you wandered out a little way to step on softer soil. Then you stopped paying attention as you drifted farther and farther away. Finally, you found yourself in the wrong city, wondering why the signs on the roadway hadn't led you better.

You see the dilemma?” Ham asked. “I see an idiot,” Breeze mumbled.

Vin snorted, kneeling in the low tent as she pulled her belt tight; then she crawled over to him. "I don't know how you read while riding," she said. "Oh, it's quite easy - if you aren't afraid of horses." "I'm not afraid of them," Vin said. "They just don't like me. They know I can outrun them, and that makes them surly.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

Nothing will train you to write better as a writer, than working on your next book.

You're a sword not a palm tree