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Ridge Carpenter
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But if you recognize yourself in these pages—if you feel something stirring inside—stop reading immediately. You might be one of us.
“No man can return to being a boy. But there are interludes in a man’s life when, for a time, he can recapture the feeling that the world is a forgiving place and that he is immortal.”
― Fool's Errand
― Fool's Errand
“Half the evil in this world occurs while decent people stand by and do nothing wrong. It’s not enough to refrain from evil, Trell. People have to attempt to do right, even if they believe they cannot succeed.”
― The Liveship Traders Trilogy
― The Liveship Traders Trilogy
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Reaper Man
― Reaper Man
“She looked young. Young enough to make a man feel guilty for thinking the wrong thoughts, but old enough to make it difficult not to.”
― Summer Knight
― Summer Knight
“The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
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Ridge’s 2025 Year in Books
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