Jeff Wheeler > Quotes

“It is a cruel fact, child. Wisdom comes after the moment when it is most needed.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Blight of Muirwood

“If it looks a bit rough, a little worn, with little splotches - those have the swetest flavor. The ones that are perfect on the outside tend to be a bit more bland. That is true about many things in life.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“There is wisdom in climbing mountains... For they teach us how truly small we are.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“The world is full of fools eagerly waiting to hear what they long to be told.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Scourge of Muirwood

“Never trust another person to do your thinking for you.” That sounded a little strange to Owen, but he accepted it.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Queen's Poisoner

“New ideas are delicate. They can be crushed easily. New ideas can be killed by a sneer or a yawn...or even a frown.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Queen's Poisoner

“We are more wicked together than separately. If you are ever forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself. Never trust another to do your thinking.”
― Jeff Wheeler

“The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors - that which it loves, and also that which it fears.”
― Jeff Wheeler

“If your master demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Thief's Daughter

“They hate truth for the sake of whatever it is that they love in its place. When truth benefits them, they love it. When it rebukes them, they hate it. They love truth when it reveals itself and hate it when it reveals them.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Fireblood

“Most people suffer from a lack of imagination. They don't dare enough. But I do.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Queen's Poisoner

“People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be—whether they will admit that or not.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Fireblood

“To fully master your mind, you must learn not to react to being observed by others. We naturally seek to please. To be acceptable. And in so doing, we give others—even our loved ones—power over our minds.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Storm Glass

“When enough people believe something of you, it can distort your view of yourself. We mimic the judgments of others. It would take a very strong person indeed to resist the effects of so much ill will.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Queen's Poisoner

“Because you think your language is the best language? That because you were born and your parents babbled to you in this tongue, that it is the best language to speak? How small is your mind.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Scourge of Muirwood

“What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Blight of Muirwood

“When he read, it was as if he were transported to some dreamland where he could not hear whispers or shouting.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Queen's Poisoner

“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“I cannot break the chains you forged against yourself.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Scourge of Muirwood

“Never trust another person to do your thinking for you.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Queen's Poisoner

“Too many people are frightened. They want youth to last. They complain bitterly if sickness comes. But the world is always in tumult, and fortunes rise and fall and fail. It is the ambitious who accomplish things. It takes courage to be ambitious, for never was anything great achieved without risk.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Queen's Poisoner

“Beyond any gift or treasure, I desire to learn to read. (Lia ~ The Wretched of Muirwood)”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“Courage isn’t the absence of fear, Owen. Courage is moving forward even when you’re afraid.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Queen's Poisoner

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time only a dream. Just as the oak sleeps in the acorn, and the bird waits in the egg, so dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“The hunter is patient. The prey is careless.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Blight of Muirwood

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Blight of Muirwood

“Power. There was power in being able to control how others reacted to you.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Queen's Poisoner

“In reality, there is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as our pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as you please. It is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself. You will see it, perhaps, even within the abbeys of the realm. For even if I, an Aldermaston, could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Wretched of Muirwood

“There is no anger above the anger of a woman. For her thoughts are more vast than the sea, and her counsels more deep than the great ocean.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Blight of Muirwood