“It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magicians' Guild
“How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magicians' Guild
“Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magicians' Guild
“The last young lady I met stabbed me. You know I’m cursed when it comes to women.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magicians' Guild
“But right now it’s a friend’s love.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magicians' Guild
“Kyralia estaria muy bien gobernada, si gobernar fuera un delito”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magicians' Guild
“It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow city streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magicians' Guild
“A friend. Cery’s shoulders drooped. Closing his eyes, he let out a long sigh.”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magicians' Guild
“Sonea era más cínica. Había observado que las mujeres solían pasar por alto cuando estaban enamoradas porque, en algún momento, el amor tendía a desvanecerse. Era mejor casarse con un hombre que te gustara y en quien confiaras”
― Trudi Canavan, quote from The Magicians' Guild
Trudi Canavan
Born place: in Kew, Melbourne, Australia
Born date October 23, 1969
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“In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually deploys epiphany as a metaphor. It is usually only in dramatic representations, religious iconography, and the 'magical thinking' of children that insight is compressed to a sudden blinding flash.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
“But during the many happy hours that Cadpig was to sit watching it in the warm kitchen she never liked it quite so much as that other television, that still silent television she had seen on Christmas Eve when the puppies had rested so peacefully in that strange lofty building. She often remembered that building and wondered who owned it. Someone very kind she was sure for in front of every one of the many seats there had been a little carpet-eared puppy-sized dog-bed.”
― Dodie Smith, quote from The 101 Dalmatians
“A woman needs what a woman needs.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from White: The Great Pursuit
“I've never felt about anybody the way I feel about you," I confessed in a rush. "I can't imagine that what I'm feeling isn't love. But 'I love you' doesn't feel adequate to express it." I plunged headlong into babbling. "I desperately want you to love me. I need you to love me - but I don't want to need it, and I'm afraid that I need it too much.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from A Different Blue
“I was silently reciting to myself the 23rd Psalm, 'The Lord is my shepherd; I shal not want . . .' [. . .] The man with the tinted spectacles and the man from the police department were looking at me thoughtfully. They mistook my silence as a sign of weakening. I knew I had to show courage. In fact, I felt much better for having recited the words of the psalm. I had not been so free of fear the whole evening as I was in that moment standing beside the black jeep, a symbol of repression. I lifted my head and said in a loud and firm voice, 'I'm not guilty! I have nothing to confess.”
― Nien Cheng, quote from Life and Death in Shanghai
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