“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.”
― David Eddings, quote from King of the Murgos
“...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.”
― David Eddings, quote from King of the Murgos
“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”
― David Eddings, quote from King of the Murgos
“Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion”
― David Eddings, quote from King of the Murgos
“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”
― David Eddings, quote from King of the Murgos
“Then you’ve learned something today. No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.”
― David Eddings, quote from King of the Murgos
“Watch out for snakes,’ Durnik called after him.”
― David Eddings, quote from King of the Murgos
David Eddings
Born place: in Spokane, Washington, The United States
Born date July 7, 1931
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“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.”
― Blaise Pascal, quote from Pensées
“You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they're protecting them from their enemies.”
― Costas Taktsis, quote from The Third Wedding
“Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?”
― Carsten Jensen, quote from We, the Drowned
“Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human’s life.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, quote from Mermaid
“Therefore, while our eyes wait to see the destined final day, we must call no one happy who is of mortal race, until he has crossed life's border, free from pain.”
― Sophocles, quote from The Complete Plays
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