"Toll the Hounds" Quotes

We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there, in the annals of story, we are able to revisit, and indeed, revisit endlessly, all those wonderful people, places, and events that are otherwise lost to memory.

Sometimes, life don't leave you alone. Sometimes, life comes looking for you.

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

It's not the words that matter, it's the heart behind them. The tone of voice. The look in the eyes.

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.

In the end, it is the pursuit of power that shapes us. Shapes those we love. And in our desperation we are led to acts we would never have believed ourselves capable of. But it is not as if we are led by the hand, forced to do what we do. In the end, we always have a choice.

All that I am, all that I ever was, is here in your perfect eyes. They're all I can see. I don't know where I am, I don't know where I've been, but I know where I want to go.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is to teach them how to live without them.

The most important step in a journey is the first one. Without it, you will never reach your destination.

The heart is neither given nor stolen, it is merely shared.