“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.”
“A useful maxim: two rarities combined call for close attention.”
“Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.”
“In my ten years of teaching I’ve noticed that teachers tend to have a bad habit of talking to themselves. I hypothesize that this is because we talk for a living, and we feel safe speaking our feelings aloud. Or it could be that most of us, especially the high school teacher variety, are just weird as shit.”
“He gave me a small smile, and in that smile I saw our whole catastrophic history playing out before my eyes.”
“The rag he'd used to clean the table went into the fire behind him. "I saw what you are," he said, "and I was ashamed. I saw what you expect from a person, and I'd call you a bitch except you demand it from yourself as well. I saw how you see me," he explained. "It wasn't anything I didn't already know, but it made me wonder at what I lack, what isn't there.”
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