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Involuntarily, she stopped, jerked up her head, looked around her like a frightened woman. They weren't car horns: they were wind instruments
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Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.
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He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.
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We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
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Admonitions took over the ravaged playground of his mind.
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Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world
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But my arts are also pure, as a circle is pure, and in a flawed world purity cannot endure.
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Golden Boy with feet of clayLet me help you on your way
A proper push will take you far -
But what a clumsy lad you are! — Stephen R. Donaldson
I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.
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Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me.
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So ignorance increases ignorance, and knowledge
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But we will trust you nonetheless. You are bitter, and bitterness is a sign of concern. I trust that.
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The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling
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Perfection cannot endure in an imperfect world.
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Oh, I have dreams, you fool. I have dreams. I dream of blood.
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Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.
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It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.
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Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about the healing of stoneware pots.
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In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver
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power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise.
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Mending is harder than breaking.
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And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".
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So now you think the augury was misinterpreted. It said you had to go get someone. It didn't say who that someone was.
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I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.
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Where do you get dreams like this?
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For all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must.
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Futility is the defining characteristic of life.
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Joy is in the ears that hear.
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When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire
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Life is risk. All who inhabit the Earth inhale peril with each breath.
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he felt as tired as if he had spent the whole night shouting at himself. While
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What good are friends who treat you just like your enemies do?
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Dark trees leaped across his vision like aghast dancers in the nacreous light.
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Their flat, unreadable faces showed no signs of youth or age, as if their relationship with time was somehow ambivalent; and
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This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
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In perfect unison, all the townspeople vomited gouts of blood onto the pavement.
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Attempts must be made, even when there can be no hope. The alternative is despair.
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We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it.
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I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.
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I can't spend my whole life just sitting on my hands and wondering when I'm going to fade. I can't. That's worse than doing something wrong. Isn't it?
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Part of him wanted to weep ... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.
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But he was dreaming. The way to endure a dream was to flow with it until it ended.
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She could not distinguish between contrition and self-abasement; between acknowledgment and blame.
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In your present state, Chosen, Desecration lies ahead of you. It does not crowd at your back.
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Be true, unbeliever.
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Courage is for the lean. I am wiser.
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That is Lord Foul's way in all things - to force his foes to become that which they most hate, and to destroy that which they most love.
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It may be that hope misleads. But hate - hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.
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There is no doom so black or deep that courage and clear sight may not find another truth beyond it.
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It was the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.
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The idea that his wedding band was some kind of talisman nauseated him like the smell of attar.
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everything that passes unattempted is impossible." At
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When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite.
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