Honored Enemy Quotes

“I just pray I don't have to work on you some day. Stitching together flesh that has no soul is bitter work.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“Now go. An actor should know when to leave the stage, a poet when the lay is finished, and a bard when it is time to put aside the lute.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“You can be as sharp-tongued as a viper, but you can also be as sweet as wild clover honey.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“It was an interesting dilemma and with all such dilemmas an opportunity might emerge. 'How best to turn this setback into an advantage,' he wondered silently.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“Fear had driven two enemies into each other's arms and he smiled at that thought. 'They fear me more than they do each other and that is good' he thought.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“He remembered how his father had told him that when it snowed even humans could see the wind, and it was so. He watched as gusty eddies danced and flickered, a single flake pausing for a moment to hover before his eyes, a twirling crystal of light, the exhale of his warm breath causing it to dance away even as it melted.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“Never think taking a life is easy. Do that and in a way they win.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“It's difficult the first time you have to get close to kill another. You see their eyes, see the light in it go out. Even a troll's eyes have that light. I'd be worried if you didn't feel something after that. I don't like hunting with a man who's a killer without that feeling.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“The thought struck Dennis that a hundred years before he was even born Tinuva undoubtedly knew of the river. Again he realized just how ancient the elven race was and with it came the recognition of just how much they risked when facing battle: it wasn't just a score of years in the balance, it was a score of decades.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“That was not the professional hatred of one warrior for another in the heat of battle, in which even beneath the hatred there still existed a certain begrudging respect.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“A shrieking battle cry echoed on the wind, a spine-tingling scream that sounded like the baying of the wolves closing in on their prey.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“Bountiful was the table of your grandsire, for there is still fat at the root of my heart from the feasts he gave in my honour.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“Tragic to kill a friend in battle by mistake when there are so many enemies to go around.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“Your human gods love to present you with such riddles and challenges, or so it has seemed to me for most of my life... You often seem to prefer difficult choices when simple alternatives are available; it is a constant source of amazement to my kind.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“As my grandmother said, 'Sorry won't unbreak the eggs'. Just clean the mess and move on.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“Tinuva sighed again. ‘Then there is no more to be said,’ he replied, but now his voice was full with power, power as Bovai once remembered it and it sent a thrill through him. For this was the Morvai he had once loved, but whom he must now slay, and all the glory that had once been Tinuva’s would now be his. Honour would be restored, the clan would again be whole, and Tinuva could be buried as a brother who had finally returned, through death, to his own blood.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“I am not your brother. My brother Morvai died the night you were created, eledhel. And you know all that I have been since the day you left, as I know all that you have been.’.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“It was expected that one day Tinuva would join the ranks of the Spellweavers, for his mind was showing more and more skill in using the native magic of his race.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“Of any mortal on this world, Tinuva was foremost on Bovai’s list of those who must die at his hands. His very existence was an affront to Bovai, a stain on the honour of his family and clan.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy

“He could not challenge him on that and besides, what he said was truth, which at this moment was dangerous.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Honored Enemy