“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
“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
“What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.” “What does the story mean, then?” “It means what you want it to mean,” Hoid said. “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“Maybe I’ll remove dying from my list of tasks to do this week.”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
“He was protecting. He was saving. Yet he was killing. How could something so terrible be so beautiful at the same time?”
― The Way of Kings
― The Way of Kings
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