Sunburns always reminded her of the deliberate carelessness of being young and “forgetting” the tube of sunscreen so she could get a little color.
“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
“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”
― Uprooted
― Uprooted
“Give me knowledge of my end and the measure of my days, so I may know my frailty. My lifetime is no longer than the width of my hand. It is only a moment, compared to yours.”
― A Discovery of Witches
― A Discovery of Witches
“for it is well known that if there is anything that makes men thirstier than the acquisition of knowledge it is the full or partial prohibition of drinking.”
― Blood of Elves
― Blood of Elves
“If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. —Dawanjir proverb”
― The Killing Fog
― The Killing Fog
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