The Banished of Muirwood Quotes

“I have learned, mostly through painful experience, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable. More often than not, it is well meant, the truth, and something I have needed to hear but did not want to. It is an easy thing to be offended. It is difficult to learn something new about ourselves.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“You cannot buy integrity, as the mastons say. No man can hold his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value will ever increase with its cost. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“It is a harsh reality in this world that those in power need no justification and beg no excuses.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“I have learned, mostly through painful experience, never to be dismissive of a friend’s accusation, even if it seems unreasonable. More often than not, it is well-meant, the truth, and something I have needed to hear but did not want to. It is an easy thing to be offended. It is difficult to learn something new about ourselves.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“No man can hold his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value will ever increase with its cost. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“To her mind, it was nothing more than luck that had made her a princess. She considered everyone her equal unless they proved themselves not to be.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“Maia, there is healing in weeping. There is balm in tears. An Aldermaston once said: Tears at times have the weight of speech.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“Remember—sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“If I did not get what I wanted, I suffered; if I got what I did not want, I suffered; even when I got exactly what I wanted, I still suffered because you cannot hold on to anything in the physical world forever.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of your opponent’s fate. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“If these sad emotions are endured—and accepted—patiently, they teach us wisdom and compassion.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“Tears at times have the weight of speech.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“Maia sat on the edge of the bed, weariness sapping her, but she had won something. It was a small victory, but she treasured those the most. Exhausted, she lay back down on the bed and stared at the hole in the window, watching the gray sky and hearing the wind whistle across the eaves.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“with fear and make them rush”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“In my day, the Dochte Mandar had a saying, which I believe has survived centuries in their tomes: Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of your opponent’s fate. The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. —Lia Demont, Aldermaston of Muirwood Abbey”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

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― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

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― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination does when awake? As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. The”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“A friend does not abandon a friend during troubled times. That is when the friendship is needed most.” Maia’s”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“Lies are the spices that garnish a dish. They do not change a fowl into a fish. They only season them.” She”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“He could be all sunlight and warmth one moment, with easy smiles and a teasing tongue; and in the next, he could be as hard and violent as a whip, his words lashing out with stinging barbs.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood

“A friend does not abandon a friend during troubled times. That is when the friendship is needed most.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Banished of Muirwood