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A boy is a man when he proves himself to be one, but a girl is a woman when she desires to be one.
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I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.
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All this guilt and shame and remorse you carry, Kestrel. Don't you see? That is what they burned you with. And you have added to it, all these years. The wall is of your own making. Take it down. Forgive yourself. Come out.
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They do as we do, my dear. They take what joy they may find in life as they can. As you well know that Skelly has run off to do tonight, also. The shadows of harsh times creep over us. For in a battle between dragons and men, my love, it is not only the Elderlings who must decide where they stand, but you and me as well.
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The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.
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I was very tired of being hit, but it seemed like the one thing I did well lately.
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The white prophet Gerda was barely twenty when she set out into the world to find her Catalyst. She had dreamed of her often since she was an infant. She travelled far from the peaceful green lands of her birth, going both by sea and by land, to a village far in the mountains where a peak smoked in the distance and glowed red at night
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I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.
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Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged.
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You think that is true, but I assure you it is not. Death is better than the sort of captivity they plan for you. I have been a captive, a toy for heartless men. I made them fear me. It is why they sought to sell me. It was why your father could buy my freedom.' 'I do not know that tale.' 'It is a dark and sad one.
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Surrendering that pain to stone had deadened me in a way that was a relief, but there was a darker side to that forgetting. I've seen folk who numbed their pain with strong drink or Smoke or other herbs and always the loss of their pain made them less connected. Less human. And so it was with me. Every
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When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all
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We were one thing. Whole.
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Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect."" "p. 267: Chade to Fitz"
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I wish they would all go away. Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone.
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As it was with dragons, so it is with queens. A careless word or deed could have severe consequences. Inside
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Fitz!' Motley greeted me. 'Hello, stupid!' she added. The
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For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.
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sadness
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The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.
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How could the whole world not be as broken as I was?
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And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid.
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pain
sorrow
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It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. 'Oh, Fitz, always you are ...' She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, 'No one blames you.' 'I blame me.' 'Of course you do,' she said, as if I were a child insisting the moon was a cheese.
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There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.
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that life was an immense wheel, turning in a set track and that his task was to bump the wheel out of that track and set it on a better one?
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his touch sketched the window of her freedom as she danced.
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There is something about you, Etta. Something in you that cannot be quenched, by hardship or ill treatment. Your soul gleams like silver beneath a patina of hard use. He is right to love you. Any man would love you.
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Fun, fun, fun, got you, got you, and got you again! Here, you're dead, here, I broke your forepaw, here, your blood runs out! Got you, got you, got you!
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Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.
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I have known beauties and joys that tried my heart's strength as surely as the tragedies and uglinesses have
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Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort o peace?
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People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed
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trying
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I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people
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As you will, King Fitz.
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Little brother, do not treat me as if I am already dead, or dying. If you see me that way, then I would rather truly be dead. You steal the now of my life away, when you constantly fear that tomorrow will bring my death. Your fears clutch cold at me and snatch all my pleasure in the day's warmth from me. As he had not in a long time, the wolf suddenly dropped all the barriers between us. I suddenly perceived what I had been hiding from myse..
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Too much on my mind. Too many directions to think in all at once. I sometimes feel that if I had time to focus my mind on just one problem, I could solve it. And then go on to solve the others." "Every man believes that. It isn't so. Slay the ones you can as they come to hand, and after a while you get used to the ones you can do nothing about."
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Wait for you? Not likely! I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.
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I am too swift of tongue. But I think that is the best way to talk to a dragon.
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nettle
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Fitz, you are angry. I can feel it like storm waves lashing my shores.
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The puppet dances, He turns flips and he jigs. His painted red smile looks happy but he is screaming, for he performs on red-hot coals. His wooden feet begin to smoke. A man comes in with a shining axe. He swings it. I think he will cut off the puppet's burning feet, but instead the axe cuts all his strings. But the man with the axe falls just as swiftly as the puppet leaps away, free.
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Wintrow's words seemed to echo through his bones. Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. This is wisdom. Does it hurt? Does wisdom hurt? Does peace hurt? Does acceptance hurt? ... He could not answer. He was suffused with the boy's simple faith. It rushed through him, warm and reassuring. Of course, he was right. Acceptance. He could not doubt or deny it." P. 190 Kennit"
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Se tudo o que eu tivesse feito na vida fosse ter nascido e ser descoberto, ainda assim teria deixado uma marca em toda aquela terra, para todo sempre. Cresci sem pai nem mae, numa corte onde todos me conheciam como um divisor de aguas. E um divisor de aguas eu me tornei.
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All I ever wanted to do was live my own life. And I'm having damn little success at that." p. 250: Brashen Trell and Amber"
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I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.
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This is philosophy, Fool. I have never had time to study such things.' 'No, Fitz, this is life. And no one has time not to think of such things. Each creature in the world should consider this thing, every moment of the heart's beating. Otherwise, what is the point of arising each day?
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