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Why is it forbidden to write down specific knowledge of the magics? Perhaps because we all fear that such knowledge would fall into the hands of one not worthy to use it.
“Lost a fight?” he’d asked, still out of breath. “The fight isn’t over until you win it, Fitz.
Here we are, and here is always the place we must start from.
In times like these, perhaps a Queen with a knife will give us more heart than a woman who drapes herself in jewels and hides behind walls.”
Some things may be learned from words on a page, but some skills are learned first by a man’s hands and heart, and later by his head.
To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, “I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living.”
One can only walk so far from one’s true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.
“Sometimes,” Chade observed, “it would be much easier to die for one’s king than to give one’s life to him.”
“Thinking is not always…comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting.
It was possible to be homesick for a time, and to be lonely for the only other person who could recall
A secret is only a secret as long as only one man knows
