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Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
Remember: There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”
I did my best not to think about it. Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.
A well-spoken sentence in Aturan is a straight line pointing. A well-spoken sentence in Adem is like a spiderweb, each strand with a meaning of its own, a piece of something greater, more complex.
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
