“And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
“The hallmark of insecurity is bravado.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.”
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“Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
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