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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

Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

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

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

Admonitions took over the ravaged playground of his mind.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

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

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!

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

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

So ignorance increases ignorance, and knowledge

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

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling

Perfection cannot endure in an imperfect world.

Oh, I have dreams, you fool. I have dreams. I dream of blood.

Any belief that puts itself beyond doubt nurtures its own collapse.

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

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.

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver

power is a dreadful thing, and that the knowledge of power dims the seeing of the wise.

Mending is harder than breaking.

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

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

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

Where do you get dreams like this?

For all contempt turns upon the contemptuous, as it must.

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

Joy is in the ears that hear.

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

Life is risk. All who inhabit the Earth inhale peril with each breath.

he felt as tired as if he had spent the whole night shouting at himself. While

What good are friends who treat you just like your enemies do?

Dark trees leaped across his vision like aghast dancers in the nacreous light.

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

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

In perfect unison, all the townspeople vomited gouts of blood onto the pavement.

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

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

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

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?

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

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

She could not distinguish between contrition and self-abasement; between acknowledgment and blame.

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

Be true, unbeliever.

Courage is for the lean. I am wiser.

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.

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

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

It was the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.

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

everything that passes unattempted is impossible." At

When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite.