Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open!

A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.

Great gandalfs ghost! if he had a ghost. i doubt it. he was such a snob.

In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.

Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!