Soulcraft is the skill needed in shaping the human soul toward its fulfillment in its unity with the entire universe.
“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”
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“He's a man...and that's no small thing to be.”
― The Fiery Cross
― The Fiery Cross
“At last I took one big, callused hand and slid forward so I knelt on the boards between his knees. I laid my head against his chest, and felt his breath stir my hair. I had no words, but I had made my choice.
"'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there.”
― Drums of Autumn
"'Whither thou goest,'" I said. "'I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried.' Be it Scottish hill or southern forest. You do what you have to; I'll be there.”
― Drums of Autumn
“But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.”
― Drums of Autumn
― Drums of Autumn
“I've thought that perhaps that's why women are so often sad, once the child's born," she said meditatively, as though thinking aloud. "Ye think of them while ye talk, and you have a knowledge of them as they are inside ye, the way you think they are. And then they're born, and they're different - not the way ye thought of them inside, at all. And ye love them, o' course, and get to know them they way they are...but still, there's the thought of the child ye once talked to in your heart, and that child is gone. So I think it's the grievin' for the child unborn that ye feel, even as ye hold the born one in your arms.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
― Dragonfly in Amber
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