Quotes from Christie Golden

bloodied, broken corpse

Hope is what you have when all other things have failed you. Where there is hope, you can make room for healing, for all things that are possible- and some that are not. (Anduin Wrynn)

Lady Vereesa, Lady Sylvanas—you are ordered to report to His Majesty, the king, at once." The two sisters looked at each other. "Something you did?" Vereesa asked—not as an accusation, but as a simple question. Sylvanas wasn't angry; it was a reasonable assumption.

We all are weak, in one way or another. It does not matter the species. Some times that weakness is a strength in dusguise. Sometimes it is our utter undoing. Some times it is both. A wise man seeks to find a lesson from it. A fool lets it control and destroy him. And sometimes the wise man is the fool.

Remember…you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to…to pick the right path." She smiled sadly. "Even if that choice comes a little late.

How easily the mind can be turned to hate from a place of fear.

False modesty is as bad as false pride. Know exactly what you are capable of at any moment, and act accordingly. Any other path is folly—and could be deadly in battle.

It is a fool who repeats the same actions expecting a different outcome.

Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.

just because something had never been done before did not mean it could not be done.

Destruction is easy. But creating something that lasts is a challenge.

You were given a gift. You were given the chance to see who you were, to learn from mistakes, and to change and grow. Few are granted such insight.

Clarity is often found in stillness.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

Cheers the spirit, humor does, even at the darkest times.

A risky plan, but what is life without risk, eh?

I am who I am. Whether in joy or in pain. I am who I am.

Humans are pathetically greedy and easy to manipulate.

Glory, battle, great momentsss, are where we give to the world. But we cannot give without receiving. We cannot share what we do not have inside. It is this quiet, the pause between breathsss, that makes us what we truly are. Gives us ssstrength for all our journeys.

Sometimes lessons take time to learn.

The eye cannot always be trusted. We think what we see is always real, that the light always reveals what is there the same way at all times. But light and shadow can be manipulated, directed, by those that understand it... And so your eye perceives something entirely different from what you thought was there.

Please…please don't…" "You must let me go, my love," Ventress said, her voice so gentle, so tender, and she smiled lovingly. "It's the Jedi way." And she was gone.

It is arrogance to believe you can know all things. Perhaps you are right. But perhaps you are not.

I am not going to waste time on revenge when my energy is better spent toward rebuilding.