Quotes About Burrich

#1. Burrich told me that the ax was not a sophisticated weapon, but was a very satisfactory one if used correctly.

Robin Hobb

#2. Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I

Robin Hobb

#3. She asked me if the schoolteacher and the horsemaster were still at odds, and by this I discerned that Burrich and Galen's challenge at the Witness Stones had become something of a local legend already. I assured her that peace had been restored. We spent

Robin Hobb

#4. I idly wished for something else, for any situation that was neither this forsaken chamber nor the tenseness of Burrich's room. For a restfulness that perhaps I had once known somewhere else but could no longer recall. And so I drowsed into oblivion.

Robin Hobb

#5. That night I grasped another piece of the puzzle that Burrich had always been to me. For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm.

Robin Hobb

#6. The care he always took with his own appearance and behavior. "Just because you cannot see a woman does not mean she does not see you." Oh, Burrich. The extra time he still took, grooming a horse that she seldom rode anymore.

Robin Hobb

#7. I don't want to go ( ... ) Maybe if you had already graduated, you could go with me. It would be a possibility. But, as long as you are here, that's where I am going to be

Tarryn Fisher

#8. If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.

Laurie Graham

#10. Everything seems simpler from a distance.

Gail Tsukiyama

#11. I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

Mackenzie Davis

#12. For my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

Ellen Glasgow

#13. I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

Louise Mensch

#14. The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery.

Pope Benedict XVI

#15. When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate. - Damon Knight, "Stranger Station" (1956)

Gary Westfahl

#16. Fine. No more carelessly tossing people out through the gate."
"And more sword fights!" Kaden yelled.

Kiera Cass

#17. New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

Harry Hershfield

#18. Well, since you've come into my life, you've been a constant source of entertainment while simultaneously driving me insane.

Jim Gaffigan

#19. Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

Kevin Smith

#20. We all perish in our last attempt to live.

Robin Hobb