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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b4635a3 | You cannot trust yourself,' she agreed, bed-rock calm. 'Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me. | Janny Wurts | ||
| e4bac46 | Fanatics don't choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship's more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob." "What man who leads a pack of followers isn't?" | Janny Wurts | ||
| 7f75855 | This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight. | Janny Wurts | ||
| efa4f77 | What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options? | ignorance | Janny Wurts | |
| 9be8de0 | Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter? | Janny Wurts | ||
| 609e001 | Done without love, any congress between man and woman degrades the creative intelligence that graces your humanity. | Janny Wurts | ||
| fc1acd4 | Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned. They exist, beyond price, and we cannot hope to match up to them. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 9805bed | A soldier's life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We're here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 9684290 | Sithaer's dark furies," Dakar swore. "Why do I stay with you?" "For maudlin entertainment, no doubt." | Janny Wurts | ||
| ebe01cc | The grievous burden of remorse shouted shame, that a criminally blind ideology could reject the promise of birthright, then mangle the exuberant vigour of life, designed by nature to celebrate only creative abundance. | Janny Wurts | ||
| ec6363a | Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 96f88f1 | You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative. | Janny Wurts | ||
| a0dda83 | There's a choice?" "Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things." | Janny Wurts | ||
| 29e612b | You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 9ef8725 | Prophets are dastardly pessimists, to a man. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 8a6f4b7 | I should be impressed?' he commented finally. 'World renowned for foul works and mayhem, whether I practise such doctrine, or not? A shame. Shown such vulgar taste, what man with a mind would scarcely wallow to seek further clarity. Sweet faith, bliss, and bathos, it's an execrable drama. Never mind that the theological concepts are glorified platitudes sprung out of lies. | Janny Wurts | ||
| e08ff58 | What is our experience, but the reflected truth of our misapprehensions and short-falls? And also the grace of our beauty and strength, and the wise choices that make up our character? | Janny Wurts | ||
| 5487233 | Your prim faith in the True Sect's canon serves naught. The temple preaches a loveless morality that cares not one jot for the plight of our livelihood. The priests are fat parasites, theosophizing on their rumps while folk like us break our backs, milked dry by their tithes and their rote obligations. Where does their doctrine show the least concern for our chance to enjoy the fruits of our happiness? | Janny Wurts | ||
| 33b3f2c | Did I mention any name?" But dissembling was wasted; Eldir only glowered until Sethvir gave way with a shrug. "That's the part of his personality that makes us all feel like we've been kissing coiled vipers for a penny bet." | Janny Wurts | ||
| f27270d | The Wars of Light and Shadow were fought during the third age of Athera, the most troubled and strife-filled era recorded in all of history. At that time Arithon, called Master of Shadow, battled the Lord of Light through five centuries of bloody and bitter conflict. If the canons of the religion founded during that period are reliable, the Lord of Light was divinity incarnate, and the Master of Shadow a servant of evil, spinner of dark pow.. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 34674e6 | Because the factual account lay hopelessly entangled between legend and theology, sages in the seventh age meditated upon the ancient past, and recalled through visions the events as they happened. Contrary to all expectation, the conflict did not begin on the council stair of Etarra, nor even on the soil of Athera itself; instead the visions started upon the wide oceans of the splinter world, Dascen Elur. This is the chronicle the sages re.. | Janny Wurts | ||
| c666787 | Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer? | Janny Wurts | ||
| 1d21984 | I always listen," the duke said, annoyed. "Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders." | Janny Wurts | ||
| 6084327 | Doubt packs more damage, kept secret. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 54bc47b | The wisest of sages have said that a man will choose violence out of fear." The Master's words were expressive, but cold, and directed toward the King. "Is your stature so mean that you dare not face me without fetters?" | Janny Wurts | ||
| c8e741e | I pity the man who can't cry. | Janny Wurts | ||
| e6e2624 | But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people! | Janny Wurts | ||
| 432bb2f | There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written. | Janny Wurts | ||
| e643689 | I trust you," she murmured through urgency. "Completely. Without end, and before the beginning." | Janny Wurts | ||
| 403b8cc | Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard's revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first! | wife-and-husband | Janny Wurts | |
| e850197 | But hope always kindles through striving. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 5a1a3c6 | Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation." | selflessness | Janny Wurts | |
| 0798202 | I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons. | Janny Wurts | ||
| fd3fb81 | Prudence, my prophet,' the sorcerer rebuked. 'The results of prophecies often resolve through strangely twisted circumstance.' But if Asandir was yet aware that the promised talents were split between princes who were enemies with blood debts of seven generations, he said nothing. | Janny Wurts | ||
| f3f7ebe | Does imagination or joy come with limits? | Janny Wurts | ||
| baa4533 | Sometimes there are no victims to save, and nothing is broken that should be fixed. | Janny Wurts | ||
| 2ff71e2 | Even if I wasn't a Japanophile, I would still use chopsticks all the time, for all kinds of cuisine. Especially salads, which can be unwieldy on a fork. The cultural difference between selecting your food and stabbing it is symbolic of the quiet simplicity of the East versus the blunt directness of the West. | Chip Kidd | ||
| 48a8175 | On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time. I doubted I was up to the task, but regardless, I entered from the rear, just to give myself the slightest mental edge. | Chip Kidd | ||
| 65a7b93 | He was the most astonishing contradiction of components I'd ever encountered. Shy yet fiercely communicative when putting an idea into your head. Vocally astringent regarding his own abilities but not to the point that he couldn't produce--he was as prolific an artist (yes, an artist, and I never use the term, especially regarding people I like) I've ever seen. But I could feel it. Everything he sketched, penciled, inked, made--was a paymen.. | chip-kidd | Chip Kidd | |
| adc1ee5 | Penguin Classic, with the orange bands at the top and bottom; and the Gill Sans thirty-sixpoint title, all caps, centered and medium weight, in black on the white band in the middle. One of the designer Tschichold's prouder moments, when he finally woke the hell up and joined the twentieth century. | graphic-design penguin-classic | Chip Kidd | |
| 1c4c7d5 | Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that of his enemies. | enemies judgement quality worthiness | Jim Butcher | |
| 54d59f9 | Yet woman, though she ceased to be a king* and man protected her, was still reverenced as the source of life. Only now when man is learning that she cannot give life without him does he begin to scorn her whom he protects. So she that created property will become property. "So it is already in the Eastern World, so it will be here. And out of that constant injustice will rise continually more evils to breed wars and fresh injustice until me.. | Evangeline Walton | ||
| 2cbaba1 | Impari lentamente, mio amato, ma impari. E cio che si impara lentamente scende piu nel profondo. Voi uomini e i vostri Dei! Vi beffate della Madre per la sua lentezza da lumaca, perche crea ciecamente al buio. Tuttavia quando create senza di Lei, in fretta e alla luce, create davvero ciecamente, dando forma, magari, alla morte di un mondo! Ebbene, avvelenate il mare e il cielo, l'aria che respirate, e persino la dolce pelle bruna del suo se.. | mabinogion mythology walton welsh | Evangeline Walton | |
| 990f051 | The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened, heavier folds. For there was a different quality in the silence now. It had tasted something, rich food on which it had long been thinly rationed. Shadowy things were trooping up, called by that scent of blood, like flies that smell carrion. They were not strangers to the old house; they had been ill-fed and.. | ghost horro supernatural | Evangeline Walton |