“The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.'
Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?'
That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.”
“...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.”
“The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other.
-Kheldar”
“Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion”
“The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it”
“Then you’ve learned something today. No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.”
“Watch out for snakes,’ Durnik called after him.”
“Her problem wasn't she was a dumb blonde, it was she wasn't a blonde and she wasn't dumb.”
“I knew life was not perfectly simple and luck was involved, but it was undeniable that hard work paid dividends and being lazy was not generally a good idea. I also believed that having hope and a general sense of optimism made one more likely to be aware of opportunities and take advantage of those opportunities when they existed. After all, a serial pessimist would have no reason to take a risk if he thought failure was the likely outcome.”
“A grin split his face like a sunrise.”
“I didn't know what I expected. But the smell of fresh paint make me nauseous.”
“You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence?”
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