“...if I did not try to understand the psychology of people, well I think my ballads would be missing something. I think trying to become the characters…is the key to writing them…”
― The Companions
― The Companions
“It felt like we were claiming the world for ourselves and our lives as our own.”
― A Map of Days
― A Map of Days
“Perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together.”
― Brisingr
― Brisingr
“We might even make this after all,’ he hollered, but the craft didn’t reply.”
― Inara
― Inara
“This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.”
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
― A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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