Heir of Novron (The Riyria Revelations, #5-6)

by Michael J. Sullivan

“Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.”

Life is like a bully that gets laughs by seeing how much humiliation you’ll put up with. It threatens to kill you if you don’t eat mud. It takes everything you care about—not because it wants what you have, or needs it. It does it just to see if you’ll take it.

“Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.”

‘When you expect nothing from the world—not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe—everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.’ ”

There’s always one member of any crew who’s looking for a mutiny.”

‘More valuable than gold, more precious than life, is mercy bestowed upon he who hast not known its soft kiss’—Girard Hily, Proverbs of the Soul.”

If you don’t abandon hope on pleasant days, why do so on those that begin poorly?”

‘Life is only precious if you wish it to be.’ I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal—do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience?”

“For reminding me that anyone, no matter what they’ve done, can find redemption if they seek it.”