A hand fought best when it made a fist.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
You'd never killed anyone. Then you had.
What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?
You have to be afraid for it to count as bravery.
One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die.
Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.
Do you know the wish of your heart?" - The Darkest Road
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I dont think theres any doubt that coming of age in Winnipeg both opened my eyes and made me hungry - if I can subvert all claims to be a real writer by mixing metaphors like that.
Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.
What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese stringed instruments.
I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Men made wagers with their judgment, their allegiances, their resources.
When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away
The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.
One man sees a riselka: his life forks there. Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die. Three men see a riselka: one is blessed, one forks, one shall die. One woman sees a riselka: her path comes clear to her. Two women see a riselka: one of them shall bear a child. Three women see a riselka: one is blessed, one is clear, one shall bear a child.
Unless the perfidious wolves have the temerity to disobey the High King's plans, we should meet Shalhassan's forces by the Latham in mid-wood with the wolves between us. If they aren't,' Diarmuid concluded, 'we blame anyone and everything except the plan.
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
There was some sadness in how that could happen, falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had.
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