Fate of the Argosi Quotes

“Wisdom is never free, and the price is paid in either years or in pain.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“When your head is full of clamouring thoughts, breathe in emptiness so you can breathe out the stupid.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“Everybody’s got their own way of saying goodbye. Maybe it ends with a tearful expression of bittersweet sorrow followed by a proclamation equal parts romantic and tragic: ‘You were the best friend I ever had,’ or ‘So long as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, I’ll never feel about another the way I feel about you.’ Rebellious denials work for some. ‘I refuse to say goodbye. Mark my words, we’ll be together again sooner than you think!’ Disappearing in the middle of the night is always a classic. It’s too hard to say goodbye, they’re telling you, as if their silence were a mark of how much you meant to them.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“A sigh is a public pronouncement masquerading as private suffering. It’s petty and impolite – a way of expressing exasperation over someone or something without taking responsibility for it.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“This is why the Argosi say that guilt, shame and grief are three words for wasted love: because they don’t do nobody any good and all too often trap you inside your own regrets.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“There is joy to be found in the repayment of a debt, is there not, teysan? A lightening of the spirit that strengthens the resolve to uphold one’s word. How tempting, then, to dance along this path, paying off one disharmony card after another, your heart swelling with pride at the knowledge that each small sacrifice made along the way enhances your sense of righteousness. Beware, however, the trap being laid out for you by your own cards: when you walk the path of restitution blindly, you grant others the power to play upon your guilt, luring you step by step down a road of their choosing . . .”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“A disharmony represents more than an unpaid obligation. When we abandon those we’ve wronged, they are not the only ones imprisoned by our mistakes; part of us remains shackled to them. Ignore this simple truth, teysan, and you not only steal from those to whom restitution is owed, but rob from yourself the joy of becoming whole. This is why the Argosi pay their debts not grudgingly but with gratitude.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“You forgot the Way of Water, kid?’ Durral would’ve asked. ‘What business you got hangin’ on to someone else’s pain? Listen to ’em, that’s all. Let ’em cry or scream or spew a thousand hateful words your way. That’s what a friend does. Then you take yourself off into the desert and tell yourself dirty jokes until you’re laughing so hard all the pain shakes off you like rainwater. Let it sink into the sand at your feet, where it can’t do any more harm. That’s the Argosi way.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“That was him donning his armour, only his armour wasn’t made out of metal but from the love he shared with Enna. Stronger than steel, impenetrable to despair.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“And, as everybody knows, peace is the one cause so just and noble that no amount of violence is too great a price to bring it about.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi

“This is how they get you. Charlatans. Con artists. Deadly mystical mind plagues. They begin with that which you most desire, then turn that desire into a virtue and eventually an inevitability. That’s when you give in. That’s when you break. But I am Ferius-gods-damned-Parfax, and I do not break.”
― Sebastien de Castell, Fate of the Argosi