The Core Quotes

“Mistakes are easy to see, when you look back.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“Never believed in Heaven, but I always wanted to die with a spear in my hand.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“Forgot to breathe, again.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“Startin’ to think it don’t matter if Everam’s in the sky or in your imagination. It’s a voice that tells you to act right, and that’s more than most folk have.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“Pain is only wind, bend as the palm and let it blow over you.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“Everam, he began, but no words came to him. What did prayer matter? Either the Creator existed or He did not. Either He would help them in their hour of need, or He would not.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“The Creator did not give humans wards. Humans created them out of unified need. Alone, the symbols had no power. It was the resolve of their makers, the hope and prayers of the masses huddling behind them.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“War is, at its crux, deception, Dama Khevat taught. A great leader must hold his deceit so close that even he himself does not think on it until the time to strike.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“Jarvah”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“When I was little, folk didn't think demons could be fought at all. Proved 'em wrong, and then folk didn't think Krasians and Thesans could work together. Proved them wrong, too. Write our own destinies, Leesh, long as we got the stones to do it.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“A father’s fear for his children does not fade when they grow, Par’chin.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“Renna squeezed his hands. “We get through this, you’ll be the rippin’ Deliverer, Ahmann.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“Just like the rest of the chin savages, she thought the scarf Ashia wore for modesty before Everam was some shackle to be freed of.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“There is always choice, Renna am’Bales,” Inevera said. “It is the ultimate power, what makes the infinite futures finite.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“You did not specify which type of alagai would bear me the greatest glory, Honored Shar’Dama Ka,” Sikvah said, “so I brought one for each pillar of Heaven.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core

“We do not see marriage as you greenlanders do,” Shanvah said. “The Evejah tells us love is boundless. It does not dishonor the Damajah to share. A portion of infinity remains infinite.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Core