“Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“The first love is the difficult love.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You’ll never be the same man again.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“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.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“There was nothing left to fear. He would endure or he wouldn’t.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“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.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“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.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“One time is much like another to death. She comes when she will. So why give over your mind to worry?”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“What is he?’ ‘What would you have him be?”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“Warlords who fail in conducting war tend to fall from grace quickly.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“Mama shrieked. The first man turned”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“the sound of old winter ice breaking at spring’s touch,”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“People most often don’t see what is right before them.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ’tis achieved,”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“It’s often said we take offense most in what we see of ourselves in others.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“Some love comes like a wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“should you chance to find yourself exchanging pleasantries with a moredhel woman again, she’d as soon cut your heart out as kiss you.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“among man’s strange undertakings, war stood clearly forth as the strangest.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Magician
“And her joy was nearly like sorrow.”
― John Steinbeck, quote from The Grapes of Wrath
“You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from City of Glass
“The job of a good dog was ultimately to be with them, remaining by their sides no matter what course their lives might take. All I could do now was offer him comfort, the assurance that as he left this life he was not alone but rather was tended by the dog who loved him more than anything in the whole world.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, quote from A Dog's Purpose
“Smiling without good reason is demeaning.”
― Ellen Raskin, quote from The Westing Game
“He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.”
― Kim Edwards, quote from The Memory Keeper's Daughter
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