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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 — Stephen R. Donaldson

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy. — Stephen R. Donaldson

He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head. — Stephen R. Donaldson

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Admonitions took over the ravaged playground of his mind. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world — Stephen R. Donaldson

But my arts are also pure, as a circle is pure, and in a flawed world purity cannot endure. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Golden Boy with feet of clay
Let 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. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Of the authors published under Ballantine's Adult Fantasy logo, only Evangeline Walton 'spoke' to me. — Stephen R. Donaldson

So ignorance increases ignorance, and knowledge — Stephen R. Donaldson

But we will trust you nonetheless. You are bitter, and bitterness is a sign of concern. I trust that. — Stephen R. Donaldson

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling — Stephen R. Donaldson

Perfection cannot endure in an imperfect world. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Oh, I have dreams, you fool. I have dreams. I dream of blood. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse. — Stephen R. Donaldson

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate. — Stephen R. Donaldson

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. — Stephen R. Donaldson

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver — Stephen R. Donaldson

power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Mending is harder than breaking. — Stephen R. Donaldson

And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question". — Stephen R. Donaldson

So now you think the augury was misinterpreted. It said you had to go get someone. It didn't say who that someone was. — Stephen R. Donaldson

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Where do you get dreams like this? — Stephen R. Donaldson

For all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Futility is the defining characteristic of life. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Joy is in the ears that hear. — Stephen R. Donaldson

When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire — Stephen R. Donaldson

Life is risk. All who inhabit the Earth inhale peril with each breath. — Stephen R. Donaldson

he felt as tired as if he had spent the whole night shouting at himself. While — Stephen R. Donaldson

What good are friends who treat you just like your enemies do? — Stephen R. Donaldson

Dark trees leaped across his vision like aghast dancers in the nacreous light. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Their flat, unreadable faces showed no signs of youth or age, as if their relationship with time was somehow ambivalent; and — Stephen R. Donaldson

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken. — Stephen R. Donaldson

In perfect unison, all the townspeople vomited gouts of blood onto the pavement. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Attempts must be made, even when there can be no hope. The alternative is despair. — Stephen R. Donaldson

We didn't make the world. All we have to do is live in it. — Stephen R. Donaldson

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse. — Stephen R. Donaldson

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? — Stephen R. Donaldson

Part of him wanted to weep ... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking. — Stephen R. Donaldson

But he was dreaming. The way to endure a dream was to flow with it until it ended. — Stephen R. Donaldson

She could not distinguish between contrition and self-abasement; between acknowledgment and blame. — Stephen R. Donaldson

In your present state, Chosen, Desecration lies ahead of you. It does not crowd at your back. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Be true, unbeliever. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Courage is for the lean. I am wiser. — Stephen R. Donaldson

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. — Stephen R. Donaldson

It may be that hope misleads. But hate - hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor. — Stephen R. Donaldson

There is no doom so black or deep that courage and clear sight may not find another truth beyond it. — Stephen R. Donaldson

It was the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead. — Stephen R. Donaldson

The idea that his wedding band was some kind of talisman nauseated him like the smell of attar. — Stephen R. Donaldson

everything that passes unattempted is impossible." At — Stephen R. Donaldson

When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite. — Stephen R. Donaldson