Trudi Canavan > Quotes

“Happy endings are a luxury of fiction.”
― Trudi Canavan, Priestess of the White

“So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked.
She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?'
'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.'
'Oh. Then. Nothing.'
He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.”
― Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

“Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.
Sonea: I love you too.”
― Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

“It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magicians' Guild

“There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
- Tayend”
― Trudi Canavan, The Novice

“How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magicians' Guild

“He had given her too much. He had given her everything.”
― Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

“Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.”
― Trudi Canavan, Voice of the Gods

“

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.”
― Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

“Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.”
― Trudi Canavan, Voice of the Gods

“What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Ambassador's Mission

“Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.”
― Trudi Canavan, Voice of the Gods

“If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?”
― Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

“Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magicians' Guild

“Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.”
― Trudi Canavan, The High Lord

“Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.”
Dannyl straightened in protest. “Underneath what?”
The Elyne stood up, waving one hand in Dannyl’s direction. “All…that.”
“I’m reeling at your descriptive clarity,” Dannyl told him.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Traitor Queen

“Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Traitor Queen

“Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.”
― Trudi Canavan, Voice of the Gods

“Your supposed to drink wine, my friend, not breathe it.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Novice

“Cold, truthful common sense was harder to like than warm, hopeful generosity.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.”
― Trudi Canavan, Last of the Wilds

“He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice

“Achati chuckled. "You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Ambassador's Mission

“Believe me. There was nothing good in always being second place. Next to you, I may as well have been invisible - at least when it came to the ladies. If I'd known, we'd both end up as bachelors, I wouldn't have been so jealous of you.'
'Jealous?' Akkarin's smile faded. He turned away to stare at the horizon. 'No. Don't be jealous.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Novice

“The last young lady I met stabbed me. You know I’m cursed when it comes to women.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magicians' Guild

“The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking”
― Trudi Canavan, The Traitor Queen

“Friendship? What friendship? I lust after him and he rightly ignores it!”
― Trudi Canavan, Last of the Wilds

“The right rumour in the right ears can kill the emperor, as they say.”
― Trudi Canavan, The Magician's Apprentice