One must gauge one's trust carefully.

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom.

There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As to that, I cannot speak, for I have seen too many threads cut short to believe it, but of a surety, I have seen too the weft of my fate shuttled on the loom. If there is a pattern, I do not think there is anyone among us who can stand at a great enough distance to discern it; yet I will not say that it is not so.

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

A nervous silence loosens tongues