“I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.” “I don't write fantasy I write historical novels about an imaginary place.”
He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.” “There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, "There is something about you I cherish." It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. Other times, we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. “The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart” My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. “The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure you must learn this.” “The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. “Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.” “The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.” And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.” “Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.” “Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. “You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.” “Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.” “Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.” “Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.”
Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. “My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. “Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.” “Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.” “More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.” “But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.” You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. “The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. “There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.” “A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
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