“Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“You’re my safe harbor in an endless stormy sea. You’re my shady willow on a sunny day. You’re sweet music in a distant room. You’re unexpected cake on a rainy day. You’re my bright penny on the roadside, you are worth more than the moon on the long night walk. You are sweet wine in my mouth, a song in my throat and laughter in my heart.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)”
― The Walking Drum
― The Walking Drum
“It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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