Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.

Do you hate me because I have magic?" "Of course not." "Do you love me despite my magic?" He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard