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A Forger wasn’t a simple scam artist or trickster. A Forger was an artist who painted with human perception.

There are . . . times when one must accept the aid of darkness in order to contain a greater darkness.

Plausibility was key to any forgery, magical or not.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

A cynic once said that the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.

"Son, this is the United States of America. Some would say it's unconstitutional to try to prevent psychopaths from fulfilling their potential." 😂

Quite true for India, nowadays!

Unlike the beasts of the wild, the many cruel varieties of human monsters, when at last cornered, seldom fight with greater ferocity. Instead, they reveal the cowardice at the core of their brutality.

Being a hard-drinking woman with numerous interests in addition to poker, Granny Sugars didn't always spend as much time spreading God's word as she had promised Him that she would. She believed that God expected to be conned more often than not and that He would be a good sport about it.

Marriage could hardly be like the passionate romances one read about in books. It seemed to her, in fact, a rotten deal.

She could picture this same graveyard once upon a time in a tidier state, with carefully tended shrubs and flower beds, but now it was a realm of weeds and tall grasses, the vegetation threatening to swallow the place whole. The tombstones were blanketed with moss, and mushrooms sprouted by the graves. It was a picture of melancholy. Even the trees seemed lugubrious, though Noemí could not say why. Trees were trees.

The land kept its riches in the dark, sprouting no trees with fruit.

I imagine myself as a vacuum cleaner, sucking in all the smells, all the life, a spear of summer grass. 🐕

Grandparents are convinced they’re better parents than their own kids, whose lives they’ve already fucked up. The problem is, grandparents are pains in the ass because they have money.

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.

I admire the female sex. The life makers. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside. (I mean, other than a tapeworm, which I’ve had. That doesn’t count as another life, really. That’s a parasite and should never have been there in the first place.)😂

I close my eyes and listen vaguely in a half sleep as he does the things he does before he sleeps each night. Brushing and squirting and splashing. So many things. People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.

If there had been no Chandra, there would have been no Kumble.

"I was not liked by the selectors but yes, a dacoit liked me." - Rajinder Goel

A good captain must have a fair idea about the limitations of his side.

The best indication of what human beings will do is not what they think, but what the record says similar groups have done in the past.

This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.

Yes, it was uncomfortable to watch the two of them. Kaladin liked them both … just not together. 😬

Conversations with Wit had a way of ending in an odd manner. And, well, starting in an odd manner. Odd all around.

It was useful to have a reputation, so long as it didn’t crush you.

In my painful experience, the truth may be simple, but it is rarely easy.

“Words are important,” Gavilar said. “Much more than you give them credit for being.”

“Perhaps,” Dalinar said. “But if they were all-powerful, you wouldn’t need my sword, would you?”

“Perhaps. I can’t help feeling words would be enough, if only I knew the right ones to say.”
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She had once tried to avoid Adolin’s former romantic partners, but … well, that was like trying to avoid soldiers on a battlefield. They were just kind of everywhere. 😂

Life before death. Strength before weakness. Journey before destination.

This is important, the Almighty had said. Do not let strife consume you. Be strong. Act with honor, and honor will aid you.
Except Honor was dead.