Magician's Gambit Quotes

“What was that?" Belgarath asked, coming back around the corner.
"Brill," Silk replied blandly, pulling his Murgo robe back on.
"Again?" Belgarath demanded with exasperation. "What was he doing this time?"
"Trying to fly, last time I saw him." Silk smirked.
The old man looked puzzled.
"He wasn't doing it very well," Silk added.
Belgarath shrugged. "Maybe it'll come to him in time."
"He doesn't really have all that much time." Silk glanced out over the edge.
"From far below - terribly far below - there came a faint, muffled crash; then, after several seconds, another. "Does bouncing count?" Silk asked.
Belgarath made a wry face. "Not really."
"Then I'd say he didn't learn in time." Silk said blithely.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn't you know that? We're afraid of the weather, we're afraid of powerful men, we're afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we're afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we're even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Does bouncing count? -- Silk, The Belgariad”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“It’s the easiest thing in the world to judge things by appearances, Ce’Nedra,” she said, “and it’s usually wrong.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Actually it’s very simple, but simple things are always the hardest to explain.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Fear’s a part of life, Mandorallen, and it’s the only life we have.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Over the months since she had joined them, he had seen her attitude toward him change until they had shared a rather specialized kind of friendship. He liked her; she liked him. Everything had been fine up to that point. Why couldn't she just leave it alone? Garion surmised that it probably had something to do with the inner workings of the female mind. As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“What you have to decide is whether you should do something, not whether you can do it.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Kroldor’s men are going to blame him for the way things turned out,’ Hettar observed. ‘I know. But then, that’s one of the hazards of leadership.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Love can show itself in many strange ways,”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Poor Garion, she thought. He was such a nice boy. She felt a little ashamed that he had been the one who’d had to suffer from her bad temper. She promised herself that soon—very soon—she would sit down with him and explain it all. He was a sensible boy, and he’d be sure to understand. That, of course, would immediately patch up the rift which had grown between them. Feeling her eyes on him, he glanced once at her and then looked away with apparent indifference. Ce’Nedra’s eyes hardened like agates. How dared he? She made a mental note of it and added it to her list of his many imperfections.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“The journey had been ghastly for Ce’Nedra. Tol Honeth was a warm city, and she was not accustomed to cold weather. It seemed that her feet would never be warm again. She had also discovered a world filled with shocks, terrors, and unpleasant surprises.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“That depends on your mind, Garion. The complexity of it lies in the complexity of the mind that puts it to use. Quite obviously, it can’t do something that can’t be imagined by the mind that focuses it. That was the purpose of our studies—to expand our minds so that we could use the power more fully.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“I see the Nimble Thief and the Man with Two Lives and the Blind Man, but I don’t see the others. Where’s the Dreadful Bear and the Knight Protector? The Horse Lord and the Bowman? And the ladies? Where are they—the Queen of the World and the Mother of the Race That Died?”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“see the Nimble Thief and the Man with Two Lives and the Blind Man, but I don’t see the others. Where’s the Dreadful Bear and the Knight Protector? The Horse Lord and the Bowman? And the ladies? Where are they—the Queen of the World and the Mother of the Race That Died?”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“The wisdom of the Gods is such that their instruction is concealed within stories. Our minds delight in the stories, and the messages of the Gods are implanted thus. All unaware, we are instructed even as we are entertained.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Fear’s a part of life, Mandorallen, and it’s the only life we have. You’ll get used to it. After you’ve put it on every morning like an old tunic, you won’t even notice it anymore. Sometimes laughing at it helps—a little.” “Laughing?” “It shows the fear that you know it’s there, but that you’re going to go ahead and do what you have to do anyway.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Ordinary men live in fear all the time. Didn’t you know that? We’re afraid of the weather, we’re afraid of powerful men, we’re afraid of the night and the monsters that lurk in the dark, we’re afraid of growing old and of dying. Sometimes we’re even afraid of living. Ordinary men are afraid almost every minute of their lives.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“Men’s minds ran to straight lines, but women thought more in terms of circles.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit

“As soon as a friendship passed a certain point—some obscure and secret boundary—a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.”
― David Eddings, Magician's Gambit