The Tawny Man Trilogy, tome 1 : Fool's Errand

No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man’s life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.

It doesn’t matter who a man’s father is. Your parents made a child, but it’s up to you to make the man you’ll be.

Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it.

When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead.

One devoted to his cat would not leave it long alone. A cat’s loyalty is not a thing to be taken for granted, but courted day by day.

Some speak of the savagery of beasts. I will ever prefer that to the thoughtless contempt some men have toward animals.

Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.