When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

What a man can take with a sword, a woman can give by her flesh alone. Life.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long dead. I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.