“Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.”
“The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.”
“The first love is the difficult love.”
“You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You’ll never be the same man again.”
“It is something only a few know in their lives. It is a vision of something so clear, so true, it can only be a madness. You see what life is worth, and you know what death means.”
“There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn’t.”
“Sometimes we want love so much, we’re not too choosy about who we love. Other times we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. 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. There’s love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.”
“The Empire is all those who live within its borders, from the nobles to the lowest servant, even the slaves who work the fields. It must be seen as a whole, not as being embodied by some small but visible part, such as the Warlord or the High Council.”
“One time is much like another to death. She comes when she will. So why give over your mind to worry?”
“What is he?’ ‘What would you have him be?”
“Warlords who fail in conducting war tend to fall from grace quickly.”
“Mama shrieked. The first man turned”
“the sound of old winter ice breaking at spring’s touch,”
“People most often don’t see what is right before them.”
“Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ’tis achieved,”
“It’s often said we take offense most in what we see of ourselves in others.”
“Some love comes like a wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness.”
“should you chance to find yourself exchanging pleasantries with a moredhel woman again, she’d as soon cut your heart out as kiss you.”
“among man’s strange undertakings, war stood clearly forth as the strangest.”
“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimolous to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.”
“I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.”
“Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash.”
“Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.”
“How would you even begin to make a hush puppy, what in the world was in one? Nothing to do with a puppy, surely. Garnett had long known, though he didn’t much like to admit it, that God’s world and the better part of daily life were full of mysteries known only to women.”
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