Quotes from Silverthorn

Raymond E. Feist ·  432 pages

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“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn


“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn


“Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn


“Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner’s acceptance of the other’s intractability.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn


“Tell them this: somehow our two worlds stand linked again by some dark power of Tsurani origin. It moves against the Kingdom. It is power beyond human understanding, perhaps power to challenge the gods themselves.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn



“what matters isn’t whether or not you’re frightened, but how you behave.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn


“his mind was an enraged animal, bouncing off the bars of a magically imposed cage, and like an animal, he reacted blindly, striking against the barrier again and again, determined either to be free or to die. Hot”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn


“It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. ‘But”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn


“No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn


“Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.”
― Raymond E. Feist, quote from Silverthorn



About the author

Raymond E. Feist
Born place: in Los Angeles, California, The United States
Born date December 23, 1945
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