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“I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surpri...”
“There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it was: friendship had happened to both of them, on the sudden, completely aside from Tristan's bot...”
“You said the d-word, Owllwin said regretfully. I didnt think you would, or I woulda warned ya. . . . the d-word? Cricket repeated in confusion.Yeah . . . Owllwin paused as if he was glancing around...”
“Owllwin was easiest the most contrary person Cricket had ever known. He was arrogant but humble, cowardly but brave, foolish but wise. He was funny, but sometimes she caught him crying when he was ...”
“When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.”
“The villagers had removed their masks. They displayed their true faces. And they were dreadful, diabolic visages. Blasted skin hung from shrunken mouths and red veins burst from their skin, leaving...”
“They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.”
“When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow.”
“Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire.”
“This is the beginning of a new time, Torius said, a great moment for us. One of us has learnt the Tongue and freed a princess. I have saved him and killed the guards. No longer will we be slaves. N...”
“She was the lover of two mighty kings.She was their Chalice.The certainty of the knowledge settled over her shoulders like a weighty mantle. She might not know where she came from, but she knew whe...”
“Walking alongside his apprentices horse, Sethil Longmere, magus of the Third Circle, Magi Master of Dormirs army, and a man who had seen more years than most men could count, did his best to keep h...”
“I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Farie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold.”
“Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and endlessly combinedin living shapes that move from mind to mind.”
“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock...”
“Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.”
“The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.”
“And once upon a time I wondered: Is writing epic fantasy not somehow a betrayal? Did I not somehow do a disservice to my own reality by paying so much attention to the power fantasies of disenchant...”
“One can lose themselves in the twilight, when there are no colors to guide the way.”
“LILY FELL OUT OF THE SKY.”
