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“You know how to win,” she says. “Just make sure you know when to fight.”
― Children of Blood and Bone
― Children of Blood and Bone
“The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod” even though it appears to affect them powerfully. She finds it hard to watch them fight to maintain their composure as the kettledrums roll and the score ascends to its heights. It must cause them something close to agony. Perhaps, she thinks, that is what they require: something that allows them to follow their pain as it rises, in its most beautifully orchestrated form— one that insists on the inevitability of whatever will come, and then releases them, gently, with that knowledge. It is not comfort it gives them, she realizes, but acceptance; not an anaesthetizing of sorrow, but a clear articulation of it,”
― The Whalebone Theatre
― The Whalebone Theatre
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“Luck was a mechanism to be devised, and luck and destiny were merely two sides of the same coin.”
― King of Fools
― King of Fools
“You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love.”
― Heir of Fire
― Heir of Fire
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