Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

That is the trick of good government. To make folk desire to live in such a way that there is no need for its intervention.

Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.