“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
“I picture him, in those few seconds in between the fences, a stoner grin on his face, high at the thought that freedom was so close.”
― quote from Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
“It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from A Wolf at the Table
“It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.”
― Ginn Hale, quote from Wicked Gentlemen
“I wanted someone to gaze at me that way, someone to share a truly incredible moment with. I wondered how long I would have to wait.”
― Mara Purnhagen, quote from Past Midnight
“...I was more than just the sum of my experiences, and I had the ability to become an active participant in life instead of just standing on the sidelines.”
― S.H. Kolee, quote from Fated
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