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“Fear of the cost of doing the right thing is enough for most to abide in ignorance.”
― Stillbright
― Stillbright
“It is a rule of leading people, Gideon. You may be confused, or afraid, or overwhelmed, or all three—those who depend on you must never see it.”
― Stillbright
― Stillbright
“You cannot be given this much,” she hissed, “this much power, and the status it confers, and decide you’ll only use that to get more.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
“Death feels like nothing, I expect,” the huge shape answered, in Tun’s voice. “Life, on the other hand, is quite painful.”
― The Warden
― The Warden
“And how,” Aelis finally said, running through options in her mind, “do you kill it?” “With great fucking difficulty,” Tun said, and they lapsed into silence as he led them west.”
― The Warden
― The Warden
“She was shocked at the strength of the flavor. “Gods, Tun. I think this is better than tea.” “That,” he said, taking a sip of his own, the mug lost in his hand, “only proves that your opinion may be safely ignored. Now, the maps?”
― The Warden
― The Warden
“They have chosen to worship power and strength, Cerisia,” Allystaire said, softening his voice somewhat. “I will pay them in the wages they deserve.”
― Crusade
― Crusade
“Not much in the world is done by standing.”
― The Warden
― The Warden
“I told you once before that not all knowledge is worth having. Not all boundaries must be pushed.”
― Necrobane
― Necrobane
“Death is only pretty in the distant and the abstract,” Aelis said, “after the poets and the minstrels have had their go of it. Never up close.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
“Chess? Really?” Aelis tried not to let her distaste for the game into her voice, but she knew she’d failed when she saw Tun roll his eyes. “Of course, a game of careful planning and strategic caution is lost on you.” “It’s boring, Tun.” “Only if you don’t know how to focus on it. Have you ever even played orcish chess?”
― Necrobane
― Necrobane
“Are you amending the plan you spent so much time explaining last night?” “It was a joke, Tun.” “Until last night, so was the idea of you having a plan more complex than ‘poke something and see what happens.”
― Necrobane
― Necrobane
“The gap between what we want and what we must do is where we learn who we are, Aelis.”
― Necrobane
― Necrobane
“Yes,” Miralla said as they headed for the door, “why waste your theurgic energy on seeing the warp and weft of the future, on unraveling the very fabric of the world and the seven energies in order to see straight to what you want or need, when instead you could be rooting around inside a dead or dying body?” “Exactly,” Aelis said, and the two of them went off to dinner, laughing.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
“Oh no, I might be mildly uncomfortable for a day or two? I’m not on my fucking deathbed. Now go. Get us some bread and cheese and … goat’s brain or sheep’s asshole or whatever they eat for dinner here.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
“Doesn’t seem like a good idea to me.” “My ideas never are. But my execution is flawless.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
“Do not expect the great folk of this world to care what happens to you. The only place kings and barons give a damn about farmers and laborers is in legends.”
― Ordination
― Ordination
“Building bridges has never been one of the Archmagister’s strong suits,” Aelis said. “He’s more likely to burn the bridge, everyone on it, and the towns on either side. Burn the river too, if he thinks the river deserves it.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
“Once you find a place to stand and stop, do it,” Aelis said. “Power stays put. Desperation circles the room.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
“Never stop in the middle of a fight or an investigation to start doubting yourself or second-guessing the action you’ve already taken. “Don’t be impulsive. But once you act, don’t stop to think what you could’ve or should’ve done differently until your action is over. Dedicate your mind to what remains in front of you, not distracting it with what lies behind.”
― Necrobane
― Necrobane
“Aelis went out to face the day with the full intention of becoming someone’s pain in the ass.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
“There are many ways to understand the world, Master of Sums, though some would say it comes down to two; the way of tales, and the way of math: the marked string and the balance, the astrolabe and the compass, the ground glass lens. Though I can manage the tools of the latter, I know which I prefer.”
― Necrobane
― Necrobane
“What would Bardun Jacques say to a warden who did that?” “That they weren’t fit for the service, that they were no better than a hedge wizard, that they were losing a war to their own stupidity…” “Probably with more fucks thrown in,” Miralla offered.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
“Slowly, Aelis set the mug down, the temptation to bounce it off the elf’s face entirely too strong.”
― Advocate
― Advocate
