Novelists From The United States

"There was a price to be paid for any decision he made. There was a price for who he was. Other people paid it."

"Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me."

"We hear less, Davram Bashere, but perhaps sometimes we see more."

"If I could find a way to escape my destiny, do I deserve to?"

"What is too absurd to believe is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie."

"We are all fools sometimes, child, yet a wise woman learns to limit how often."

"The pike does not ask the frog’s permission before dining."

"What can’t be changed must be endured."

"An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you."

"No man should have another man's voice in his head."

"Dance well with a woman, and she’s halfway yours."

"Dance with her, and she will forgive much; dance well, and she will forgive anything."

"A woman’s eyes cut deeper than a knife."

"Men believe the worst easily, and women believe it hides something still darker."

"Victors write history."

"The only way to live is to die. I must die. I deserve only death."

"Clutch the bramble and you will be pricked."

"The best way to apologize to a man is to trip him in a secluded part of the garden."

"A slow horse does not always reach the end of the journey."

"The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule."

"It’s too late to change your mind after you’ve jumped off the cliff."

"There’s no point letting honey age too long before you eat it."

"Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses too long."

"If you are not mine, then you are dead."

"Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn’t worth the trouble."

"I’m no lord. I’ve more respect for myself than that."

"It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down."

"I would burn the world and use my soul for tinder to hear her laugh again."

"I will see you tonight. Or I will see you dead."

""Wish" and "want" trip the feet, but "is" makes the path smoother."

"Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack."

"The fox often offers the duck its pond."

"The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse."

"I can rest when I’m dead."

"Never gamble without knowing a back way out."

"Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars."

"If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips."

"Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path."

"Better to try understanding the sun than a woman."

"I trust you like a brother. Until the day you betray me. You have a parole for what you’ve done, in return for your teaching, and a better bargain than you deserve, but the day you turn against me, I will tear it up and bury it with you."

"I lead no armies, Warder. I command nothing save myself, and not always that."

"When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back."

"Men always believe they are in control of everything around them. When they find out they are not, they think they have failed, instead of learning a simple truth women already know."

"At my age, if I make it up, it’s still an old saying."

"A fool puts a burr under the saddle before she rides."

"Better to face the bear than run from it."

"When the honey’s out of the comb, there’s no putting it back."

"A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling."

"If you don’t look for snakes, you cannot complain when one bites you."

"A fool puts her hand into a hollow tree without finding out what’s inside first."