Camden

“There are so many stories, she thinks, and most of them end up lost.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, River of Stars

“[W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'"

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'Nice bird, asshole,' said Locke.”
― Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora

“No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“I can see that you go through life athwart it. You see the flow of events, you are able to tell how you could most easily fit yourself into it. But you dare to oppose it. And why? Simply because you look at it and say, 'this fate does not suit me. I will not allow it to befall me.'" Amber shook her head, but her small smile made it an affirmation. "I have always admired people who can do that. So few do. Many, of course, will rant and rave against the garment fate has woven for them, but they pick it up and on it all the same, and most wear it to the end of their days. You... you would rather go naked into the storm.”
― Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic