24 quotes found
“...emotions fly humans toward art”
“Let the one who seeks justice be just.”
“Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.”
“This is my mind's garden, I tend it; I order it. I have nothing to fear.”
“My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.”
“Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.”
“He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has.""It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling."He shook his head, s...”
“I had felt the shot coming; I hadnt realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammu...”
“For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by his words, and if I breathed it would stop.He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived s...”
“And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consi...”
“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.”
“Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to lawyers, or even men, although that combination mak...”
“There are two sacred causes in this world, he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.”
“I was just chased through St. Willibalds, and you know why? Because I was kind to a quig. I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and then it turns out they dont need leg...”
“I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they dont need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.”
“I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people whod rather avoid them.”
“Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.”
“Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawe...”
“An aged monk led me to the infirmary. "He's got the place to himself. Once the other invalids learned there was a dragon coming they miraculously got well! The lame could walk and the blind decided...”
“I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.”
