“The body needs many different foods to remain healthy. And the mind needs many different ideas to remain sharp.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king […] White to be bold. White to not blend into the night. White to give warning. For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“They were the lowest in the army, and yet they bore the weight of kings.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“Does the king know you're back?"
"Nope! I'm trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison, singing an ode to my magnificence."
"That sounds… hard."
"Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation."
"I have no idea what you just said."
"Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation.”
― The Way of Kings
"Nope! I'm trying to think of a properly dramatic way to inform him. Perhaps a hundred chasmfiends marching in unison, singing an ode to my magnificence."
"That sounds… hard."
"Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation."
"I have no idea what you just said."
"Yeah, the storming things have real trouble tuning their tonic chords and maintaining just intonation.”
― The Way of Kings
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