21 quotes found
“Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.”
“She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.”
“I think the world is often like that. Like what? Comic, but only at the right distance.”
“I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance.”
“There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.”
“Im saying there is evil in the world, Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.”
“As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in the world, at least let it be welcome here.”
“We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vi...”
“We did an evil thing, father.""What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what...”
“Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spen...”
“It's the problem in seeing too much of the world. In loving too much of it. You can only live in one place at a time. And eventually, you pick your spot, and the memories of all the others just bec...”
“Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.”
“To lose everything is not the worst can happen.""It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing," Otah said."Is exactly this," Maj agreed, then a moment later. "Starting again, and doing better.”
“I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity, Marcus said. Charity toward whom? Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldnt make a world better than this,”
“It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didnt matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, ...”
“So howd you do it? How did you get to where you arent scared all the freaking time?Erins smile drooped a little, tired with the effort.Youre making an assumption, she said. Just hang in there. Itll...”
“Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.”
“Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fated for destruction were enough to take the joy out of things, wed slaughter children fresh from ...”
“I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to ...”
“I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this,”
