You must learn to see, what you are looking at

The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

I love telling stories and I love writing so the fact that I can do it professionally is something that I've always been very grateful for.

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.