“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
“Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.”
“Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner’s acceptance of the other’s intractability.”
“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.”
“what matters isn’t whether or not you’re frightened, but how you behave.”
“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”
“It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. ‘But”
“No matter how canny you think you are, something can come along, bam, and put you on your prat.”
“Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.”
“most expensive originals have cheap imitations.”
“When we lose a battle, we have to regroup and move forward again. Choose an alternate path if necessary. But if we dwell on every action we've taken, it will cripple us, and soon we'll take no action at all.”
“Stuff that balances out the bright and shiny, just like there is for all of us. Bright and shiny on the one side, the crappy truth on the other. I think I've finally figured out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright and shiny, remember, they have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do! And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, "Is this my life?" Remember, it's not. Everyone's got a bright and shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.”
“Come out, little Katherine, he’d say. Let’s play a game.”
“and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.”
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