If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore.

Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

i'm never going to understand the Barrani." "You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either." "Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.