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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“Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
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― Maya Angelou, quote from Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women


“Fans mistake knowledge OF Jesus for intimacy WITH Jesus.”
― Kyle Idleman, quote from Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus


“El tema del amianto…, a ella le imprime cierto rumbo. Hace que el cáncer parezca algo más importante que una pequeña desgracia personal, que parezca algo más que pura y absurda mala suerte. La conecta con el mundo. Con la historia, con la política, con la justicia. Y entiendo por qué se aferra a eso. Porque creo que ésa es la parte más dura cuando uno enferma, vivir en un universo separado de todos los demás, como exiliado en un país extranjero.”
― Lionel Shriver, quote from So Much for That


“The raven spread out its glossy wings and departed like hope.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, quote from The Battle of Evernight


“There's so much you thought you could never face. The decision not to try to control your power, to let it be your demon. Too shameful to remember, so you let it eat your life up instead. But you're past it now, Scott. And all you had to defeat, all you had to let go of...was you. You're free, my love. You're free.”
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