“No need,” the old man said. “The last time I tried lords’ food, I had stomach pains for three days. New tastes are like new ideas, young man—the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.”
“The wise man takes the shortest path to peace with himself.’ Acceptance of what is, that is the shortest path.”
― Mad Ship
― Mad Ship
“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.”
― The Mad Ship
― The Mad Ship
“A message is not delivered until it is understood.”
― The Farseer Trilogy
― The Farseer Trilogy
“What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?"
"Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire."
"But, I saw-"
"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind."
"What does the story mean, then?"
"It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”
― The Way of Kings
"Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire."
"But, I saw-"
"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind."
"What does the story mean, then?"
"It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”
― The Way of Kings
“I never confuse the cost of something with its value”
― The Mad Ship
― The Mad Ship
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