David Eddings · 800 pages
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“Refusing to talk about something wouldn’t make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“...most people need to believe in something. There are a few who don't, but they're a bit unusual.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Degrur, that doesn’t make any sense at all.” “I just woke up,”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Just because I love her, it doesn't mean that I love you less.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Some stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Other stories never end, maybe because they’re alive.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“doesn’t make any sense,” he said. It was all he could do, however, to keep from throwing the dreadful sheet into”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“Bheid and Leitha, but he didn’t say anything.”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
“You’d think that the people who worshiped the real true God would have better sense.' ~Althalus”
― David Eddings, quote from The Redemption of Althalus
David Eddings
Born place: in Spokane, Washington, The United States
Born date July 7, 1931
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