“So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.”
― The Complete Liveship Traders Trilogy: Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny
― The Complete Liveship Traders Trilogy: Ship of Magic, The Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny
“It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“When one has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.”
― Fool's Assassin
― Fool's Assassin
“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
― King of Thorns
― King of Thorns
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