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“A tower seldom crumbles from the bottom up,”
“Sometimes all the choices are poor ones, Fool, and still a man must choose.”
Children, I have found, are much more swift to accept the unusual. They admit their curiosity, you see, rather than disdaining the object that arouses it.”
there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.”
Honor and courtesy and justice…they are not real, Fitz. We all pretend to them, and hold them up like shields. But they guard only against folk who carry the same shields. Against those who have discarded them, they are no shields at all, but only additional weapons to use against their victims.”
There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.
If a minstrel must embroider the truth to help us recall it fully, then let her, and let no one say she has lied. Truth is often much larger than facts.
