Michelle Sagara West Quotes

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

Stay," he said abruptly. "Stay, feed me. Read to me, if you like. Do not talk to me of death. Do not offer me your fear. I have fear of my own to drive me, and if my own fear is not strong enough to keep me from my duty, yours will only grieve me, girl. It will give me guilt and no rest, but it won't preserve my life.

Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

And I’ll stop with the lecture now. I don’t like people much - they irritate and annoy me. But I’m
fascinated by them anyway.

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.