Adversity teaches one more than flattery ever will.

Too often we allow sigh and pain to dictate our actions.

Pain will come and go, and you need to learn to push past it. If you are overwhelmed you won’t be able to do what needs to be done.

Sight can only invoke fear, not pain.

I never got a chance to ask,” he said quietly, “how you were faring. After the battle.” “Are you asking me now?” “I am.” “I’m fine.” I couldn’t think of what else to say. Anything else felt like a betrayal. “I’m glad.

The charge to produce lightning requires a very intense emotion – one that would not be forgotten so easily.

Sir Piers spent the whole exercise shouting. I was convinced someone had told him the louder he yelled, the harder we’d try. It didn’t work.

If he chooses combat I’ll wipe that arrogant sneer off his face the first chance I get.

Only fools – or bandits – would travel so empty-handed. We.

It had been an assault of everything wrong and right, right and wrong, wrong and right.