“So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked.
She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?'
'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.'
'Oh. Then. Nothing.'
He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
“Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.
Sonea: I love you too.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
“He had given her too much. He had given her everything.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
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Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
“Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
“It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
“En ocasiones, revelar la medida justa de la verdad era mejor que mentir descaradamente.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
“It was a day-by-day record of a Guild much younger and smaller than the current one. After several pages, she had grown fond of the record-keeper, who clearly admired the people he was writing about.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
“No solo mantengo conversaciones conmigo misma, sino que me niego a hablar conmigo. Deben de ser los primeros síntomas de la locura.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
“But as I witnessed what Dakova was capable of, I cared less about what the Guild did and didn't allow. He did not need black magic to perform evil. I saw him do things with his bare hands that I will never forget.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The High Lord
Trudi Canavan
Born place: in Kew, Melbourne, Australia
Born date October 23, 1969
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“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Walden
“Let me say right here, Mr. Holmes, that money is nothing to me in this case. You can burn it if it’s any use in lighting you to the truth. This woman is innocent and this woman has to be cleared, and it’s up to you to do it. Name your figure!
My professional charges are upon a fixed scale, I do not vary them, save when I remit them altogether.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“...Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child...”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Foundation
“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, quote from The Awakening
“This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.”
― William Styron, quote from Sophie's Choice
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