“An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?"
"Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“The Wars of Light and Shadow were fought during the third age of Athera, the most troubled and strife-filled era recorded in all of history. At that time Arithon, called Master of Shadow, battled the Lord of Light through five centuries of bloody and bitter conflict. If the canons of the religion founded during that period are reliable, the Lord of Light was divinity incarnate, and the Master of Shadow a servant of evil, spinner of dark powers. Temple archives attest with grandiloquent force to be the sole arbiters of truth”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Yet contrary evidence supports a claim that the Master was unjustly aligned with evil. Fragments of manuscript survive which expose the entire religion of Light as fraud, and award Arithon the attributes of saint and mystic instead.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Because the factual account lay hopelessly entangled between legend and theology, sages in the seventh age meditated upon the ancient past, and recalled through visions the events as they happened. Contrary to all expectation, the conflict did not begin on the council stair of Etarra, nor even on the soil of Athera itself; instead the visions started upon the wide oceans of the splinter world, Dascen Elur. This is the chronicle the sages recovered. Let each who reads determine the good and the evil for himself.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Prudence, my prophet,’ the sorcerer rebuked. ‘The results of prophecies often resolve through strangely twisted circumstance.’ But if Asandir was yet aware that the promised talents were split between princes who were enemies with blood debts of seven generations, he said nothing.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
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“You were sent here to die. You were the one that was not needed, was not wanted, and they sent you here because they knew you would never come back.”
― Rosamund Hodge, quote from Cruel Beauty
“Richard swung out of the carriage.
"Ho! Balcourt!"
The man raised his head. Like Richard, his hair had been cut short in the classical style made popular by the Revolution, but this
man had a pair of fuzzy sideburns crawling down his face towards his chin. They stretched so far down his face that they touched the absurdly high points of his shirt collar. It was a wonder that he was able to turn his head to look at Richard at all; his shirt points stretched up to his cheeks, and his chin was entirely buried by an exuberant cravat.
A voice emerged from the folds of the cravat. "Selwick? What are you doing here?"
'Oh dear, that couldn’t be Edouard, could it?'
Amy’s suspicions were confirmed by Richard’s next words.
"I’m delivering your sister, Balcourt. You seem to have misplaced her."
The last time she had seen Edouard, he had been a gawky youth of thirteen, preening in front of the mirror in the gold salon and tripping over his court sword. He had worn his hair in a queue tied with a blue ribbon and dusted over his adolescent spots with powder filched from Mama’s boudoir. To her five-year-old eyes, he had seemed impossibly tall. Of course, that might also have owed something to the heels then in fashion. Edouard had been so infuriated when she had sneaked into his room and paraded about in his heels… This man, his puce waistcoat straining across his stomach, his puffy cheeks pinched behind his starched collar – he was a stranger.”
― Lauren Willig, quote from The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
“Have you ever noticed how when you're happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you're miserable it goes real slow? Life would have been a blink with you whether it lasted a millennium or a month”
― Lynsay Sands, quote from A Quick Bite
“Sometimes I can't tell the difference between living and dead. Sometimes I look at a pretty little girlie and I think to myself, Is she a living, breathing thing? Or is she just a doll? Are those actualy tears she's crying? Are those real creams coming out of her mouth? And it's like a fog in my mind, like I get all confused and frustrated and mixed up, so I start doing things. Start small at first, like maybe with the ears or the lips or the toes. And then move on to the bigger things, and there's blood, so I keeping going and my hands are wet and my mouth is warm and I keep going and then something magical happens, Jasper. It's real magical and special and beautiful. See, they stop moving. They stop struggiling. All the fight just goes away and that's when it's all clear to me: She's dead. And if she's dead, then that means that she used to be alive. So then I know: This was a living one, a real one. And I feel good after that 'cause I figured it out.”
― Barry Lyga, quote from I Hunt Killers
“فالخوف يستمر فقط حتى النقطة التي يبدأ عندها وقوع المحظور ، عندئذ يفقد الخوف معناه ، ولا يتبقى لنا سوى الأمل في أن نكون قد اتخذنا القرار الصحيح.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Fifth Mountain
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