“Never trust another person to do your thinking for you.” That sounded a little strange to Owen, but he accepted it.”
“Most people suffer from a lack of imagination. They don't dare enough. But I do.”
“New ideas are delicate. They can be crushed easily. New ideas can be killed by a sneer or a yawn...or even a frown.”
“When enough people believe something of you, it can distort your view of yourself. We mimic the judgments of others. It would take a very strong person indeed to resist the effects of so much ill will.”
“Power. There was power in being able to control how others reacted to you.”
“Too many people are frightened. They want youth to last. They complain bitterly if sickness comes. But the world is always in tumult, and fortunes rise and fall and fail. It is the ambitious who accomplish things. It takes courage to be ambitious, for never was anything great achieved without risk.”
“The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed, they are praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.”
“When he read, it was as if he were transported to some dreamland where he could not hear whispers or shouting.”
“Argentine was a hard king to serve. He had a barbed whip for a tongue and it drew blood whenever he spoke.”
“Never trust another person to do your thinking for you.”
“The reason most people don’t arrive at a destination is they never embark. They think of all the reasons why they can’t do it, so they don’t even try.” “I”
“But remember the nature of secrets, Owen. If you share yours, it will stop wriggling inside your chest. And it will start wriggling inside hers. Secrets always want to come out.”
“Courage isn’t the absence of fear, Owen. Courage is moving forward even when you’re afraid.”
“It’s been my experience, Owen, that when everyone agrees on some point of fact, it tends to be the biggest deception of all.”
“That is why I refuse to shutter the windows. We need more light. Even a flower withers without sunshine.”
“New ideas are delicate. They can be crushed easily. New ideas can be killed by a sneer or a yawn . . . or even a frown.”
“Owen watched as the king prowled around the hall, choosing victim after victim. Age did not spare anyone from his barbed wit. His words were feints and thrusts, always sharp and always ready to draw blood. This was what Owen had to look forward to every day. To be wheedled and teased by a sarcastic king who used children as his royal food tasters.”
“Too many people are frightened. They want youth to last. They complain bitterly if sickness comes. But the world is always in tumult, and fortunes rise and fall and fail. It is the ambitious who accomplish things. It takes courage to be ambitious, for never was anything great achieved without risk. I wish to become the head of the Espion. There—I’ve written it down. A goal not written down is merely a wish. —Dominic”
“riding toward the palace with something”
“Thoughts have a way of growing. If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish surprising things.”
“Thoughts have a way of growing. If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish surprising things.” “Truly?”
“Remember that. Never trust another person to do your thinking for you.” That”
“The reason most people don’t arrive at a destination is they never embark. They think of all the reasons why they can’t do it, so they don’t even try.”
“He knew the disdainful way he treated others. When a man led others, he needed to earn their respect, not lord over them because of his rank. It was a lesson he’d learned from his father, who always treated his men with respect.”
“Never trust another person to do your thinking for you.” That”
“The reason most people don’t arrive at a destination is they never embark.”
“You see, it is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.”
“Lady Eleanor sat at the window seat of her chambers, gently stroking her son’s head in her lap.”
“But, when the days of golden dreams had perished,
And even Despair was powerless to destroy,
Then did I learn how existence could be cherished,
Strengthened, and fed without the aid of joy;
Then did I check the tears of useless passion,
Weaned my young soul from yearning after thine;
Sternly denied its burning wish to hasten
Down to that tomb already more than mine!
And, even yet, I dare not let it languish,
Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain;
Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,
How could I seek the empty world again?”
“More to the point, if he did cancel the tour in order to fight that tax, would we regard him as a rational man of high principle or as a doctrinaire, a moral exhibitionist, or an egomaniac”
“It was a useful reminder that all men, even the most seemingly cold-blooded, have a core of decency, and that if their heart is touched, they are capable of changing.”
“go do whatever, wherever. Go do it alone, and now, because you want to and you’re allowed to and you can.”
“Nonviolence is often the path of wisdom, but not always. Love and passive resistance are wonderfully effective weapons against some kinds of tyranny, but not against all.”
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