Hart's Hope

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Experience is my only teacher,” Urubugala answered. “Men are better when they know nothing.

A veces pensaba que Dios debía ver el mundo de ese modo, muy cercano, casi hasta poder tocarlo, e infinitesimalmente pequeño, al punto de no querer tocarlo para no romperlo.