Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and its broad range of emotional context that can't be transformed into food for the imagination.

If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

What?" It was a good word. Like a rock in a river, sticking up to let you land on it, so you could make your way across the flow.

I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.