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In a better world, he thought, I'd have followed that man to hell.

Just because something's a game, doesn't mean it isn't serious.

Love,' Asa said, 'is like a pigeon shitting over a crowd.'
'How so?'
'Where it lands hasn't got much to do with who deserves it.

To lose everything is not the worst that can happen."
"It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing.

Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both ways.

I've never see God," Yardem said.
"But you believe in him," Master Kit said.
"I'm reserving judgement.

There is a man named Ovi Niit. He runs a comfort house in the soft quarter. I mean to take it from him.

It was the fate of all reforms that they turned against the reformers.

As far as I can tell, life's just one flaming piece of shit after another, except when it's a bunch of them all at once. But

There are no locks on hell.

It doesn't matter what you've done or seen. Every man's a child until he's a father. It's the way the world's made.

Possibility is a wide field, dear. "Can't" is a word for small imaginations.

How did you find out?" "I listened. I lied. The normal things anyone would do who wanted to know something hidden.

Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly.

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In the thousand years since its foundation, the city had never been taken by force, though twice it had been seduced.

The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious.

I'm not drunk," Cithrin said. "You aren't," Yardem agreed. "Then why can't I have another glass?" "Because that's how you stay not drunk.

Every war was the precursor for the wars that followed, a slaughter that justified the slaughters to come. And

How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore?

Losing everything was still losing everything, however little someone began with.

You have all the time there is between right now and whenever it's too late.

We only understand other people by imagining what we would do in their position. What

The only ones untouched by the keen madness of the times were the children and the dogs. And the dogs seemed a little nervous.

And may the gods keep us from a world where only the people who deserve love get it.

We say our souls want joy, but they don't," she said. "They want what they already know, joyful or not.

Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended.

I find that unless we are very, very careful there can be a difference between who we are and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are. I

We drink to the gods," Amiit said, raising his bowl. "May they never drink to us.

Being doomed doesn't take away from the dignity of the effort, though.

She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.

Alle dead man are at peace. That's what makes them dead.

Never assume you can survive the future because you've survived the past. Everyone thinks that, and they've all been wrong eventually.

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.

Some errors you can only see once you've committed them.

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.

Words are empty until you fill them, and how you fill them shapes the world.