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Shadows Upon Time Quotes
Shadows Upon Time
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Christopher Ruocchio7,031 ratings, 4.49 average rating, 1,156 reviews
Shadows Upon Time Quotes
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“Beauty cannot stay, nor endure—indeed, that a thing is and is gone next is part of what makes a thing beautiful. The preciousness of any beautiful thing—any good thing—lies in its scarcity. And because all things are scarce when measured against eternity and infinity, all things are beautiful—if seen at the right angle, if captured in the right light.”
― Shadows Upon Time
― Shadows Upon Time
“How easily the untested claim righteousness”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“It was the first time I had ever heard those words spoken aloud”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“The Chantry!” Edouard objected. “You said yourself that there are more of the Monumentals out there! Destroy this ship if you must—I will not miss it—but we need you. Your daughter needs you!” I could not help but smile. “She needs you”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“The planet—Gododdin itself—shattered. I saw it die.”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“The fear of the Dark. Each man’s first and oldest fear. But a child fears the dark for its mystery”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“But man cannot hide from what is. Reality is stronger than our hopes, our dreams . . . It is stronger even than our fears. And the truth . . . the truth is neither opinion nor its slave. Question it, deny it, hide from it all you like: The truth is, and it is terrible.”
― Shadows Upon Time
― Shadows Upon Time
“The Sun Eater was my life’s work. My dream. A dream I started working toward when I was eight-years-old and so smitten by Tolkien’s Middle-Earth that I knew I must be a writer. And it’s over now. Finished.”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“My heart is with you, wherever you may be.
Until the end of all... and after it.”
― Shadows Upon Time
Until the end of all... and after it.”
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“It doesn’t matter. It wouldn’t matter . . . even if we were just . . . characters in a book. Our lives are still our own”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“Had it all been fate”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“It was my turn to smile”
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“In chess”
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“Tell me you desire a fig”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“So great a shadow”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“Were they angels? Or demons? What was the difference? Only duty.”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“Power is no freedom—unless the man who exercises that power is a monster”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“The universe is a wilderness of tigers. Of lions”
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“Switch looked at me”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“What was I measured against a being of such enormity? Only a man. But we are their siblings. The same will that set her soul afire before time began conceived me”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“The Prophet’s head was shattered. The snarling horns lay in pieces. The cranium and top of the head were gone.”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“No. I dismissed the whisper at a thought. Not Lorian. But I knew what he had done—what he must have done. He had jumped outside. Where we had but reacted”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“Lord Marlowe acted of himself,” said His Radiance”
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“You say you do not want the throne”
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“I should thank you”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“Mighty are you among the Princes of the Chantry”
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“If it is deception,” said the Emperor”
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― Shadows Upon Time
“How could I argue my innocence”
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“I knew”
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“The mob cursed”
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― Shadows Upon Time
