Quotes from The Desert Spear

“Perhaps I am broken, he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have my day in the sun.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“There’s nothing gained in lamenting what never was.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“I have rare moments of competence.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?”
“The Creator didn’t make love conditional,” Jona said. “Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“There is no man in creation who is not your brother No woman not your sister, no child not your own For all suffer the Plague, righteous and sinful alike And all must band together to withstand the night.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“Why are you doing this?” Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mother’s, but every word clear. “My mother would not be so kind to one who tried to poison her.”
“Nor would mine, but we are not our mothers, Amanvah,” Leesha said.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“Weakness shown is worse than weakness felt.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves.”
“Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away,” Abban replied.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“All men are brothers in the night.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“In his mind, the book, as much as anything in the world, was responsible for the wretched state of humanity—cowering and weak when they should stand strong; always afraid, never hopeful. But for all that, many of the Canon’s sentiments about brotherhood and the fellowship of men were ones the Warded Man believed in deeply. He”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“Corespawn it, Ren, you can’t just go around cutting people’s hands off!”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“The only man who can truly handle a woman is a woman, Abban’s father had said to him many times before he died. It was good advice.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“World’s full of things to lose yourself in. Don’t mean we should spend our whole lives behind the wards.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“„Odspavaj malo“, rece kad ugleda teški umor u
ženinim ocima. „Sunce ce uskoro zaci i onda ce nam trebati snaga. Idi. Odmori se dok još možeš.“
Darsi odmahnu glavom. „Odmaracu se kad me rastrgnu utrobnici“, rece. ,,Do tada radim.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“All the joy and color was washed from her face, and at first the sadness only made her more beautiful. But”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“The Evejah tells us: When a man’s purse is empty, his rivals grow bolder.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

“He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Desert Spear

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