Vaelin Quotes

#1. There was something new in his expression, something Vaelin had never seen before and couldn't name. In later years he would see it in the faces of a thousand men and know it as an old friend: fear.

Anthony Ryan

#2. War? War is blood and shit and men maddened with pain calling for their mother as they bleed to death. There's no honour in it, boy." His eyes shifted, meeting Vaelin's. "You'll see it, you poor little bastard. You'll see it all.

Anthony Ryan

#3. For nine more nights they trained, after an arduous day's march, Vaelin would try to turn a poet into a swordsman.

Anthony Ryan

#4. Wise Bear said something in his own language, mouth twisting in disgust as if the words stained his tongue. He caught Vaelin's enquiring gaze and provided a terse translation, "Cat People.

Anthony Ryan

#5. All knowledge is a threat to someone." Vaelin

Anthony Ryan

#6. Caenis surveyed the celebrating crowd with naked disgust. Vaelin couldn't hear the word he mouthed but the shape of his lips carried the meaning clearly enough: "Scum.

Anthony Ryan

#7. She didn't like seeing it, Vaelin realised. Didn't like seeing the killer in me.

Anthony Ryan

#8. Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Richard Condon

#9. We should get naked."
I choked on my tongue, rasping out, "Now? Right now?"
He grinned. "Yes, sweet pea. Right now.

Belle Aurora

#10. I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Matt Taibbi

#11. I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect.

Carl R. Rogers

#12. Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

Finley Peter Dunne

#14. You will know him by the blade he carries and the Dark-born skill with which he wields it, for none who know the love of the Father may defeat the Darkblade, yet all must stand against him.

Anthony Ryan

#15. It is true that I do not wear shoes as the host of 'Bunk.' I want 'Bunk' to feel like there's a slight possibility that a confident homeless man just wondered into the studio and started hosting a game show.

Kurt Braunohler

#16. We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

Vladimir Lenin