One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

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

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.

Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig? Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?