"The mainstream media hears what it wants to hear and has its own narratives."

-- Stephen F. Cohen

“Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.”
“I think I work in two worlds. I'll always try to kick through a wall. I did that when I was younger and I still have my way of doing that.”
“The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.”
“An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.”
“Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.”
“A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.”
“Block out all the negative energy, and just love.”
“Another last-minute, good-deed job,â€ Royce grumbled as he stuffed supplies into his saddlebag. â€œTrue,â€ Hadrian said, slinging his sword belt over his shoulder, â€œbut this is at least a paying job.â€ â€œYou should have told him the real reason we saved him from Trumbulâ€” because we wouldnâ€™t see the hundred tenents otherwise.â€ â€œThat was your reason. Besides, how often do we get to do royal contracts? If word gets around, weâ€™ll be able to command top salaries.â€ â€œIf word gets around, weâ€™ll be hanged.”

Source : Michael J Sullivan (2011). “Theft Of Swords: The Riyria Revelations”, p.138, Hachette UK

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