Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not..

Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed..

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder..

If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't e….

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth..

You'll be with me, won't you?" "indeed." "Then what could go wrong?" Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods..

What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you ca….

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be….

Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you..

I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common ….

It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happ….

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other..

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain..

Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling..

Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself..

Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over..

Is there anyone’s life story you don’t want to know?” “Not really.” His expression was unexpectedly serious. “Because people make a story of their li….

Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in th….

We all fail. But none of us fail all the time..

In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, t….

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath.