“You will never have nothing. Not like we have nothing. Not like the Sands have nothing, not like the Qazāli have nothing. Not like a carpenter’s daughter in Nowhere, Balladaire, has nothing.” You will never have to sell yourself to live.
“The same concern about the coming of the Antichrist lay behind much of what Roger Bacon—also a Franciscan friar—wrote to the pope about sixty years earlier: the church will need mathematical, scientific, technological, medical, and other knowledge to resist and survive the assault of the Antichrist.”
― The Secrets of Alchemy
― The Secrets of Alchemy
“You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“NO MATING.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“A single spark is not enough to warm a room nor is a single seed enough to grow a fruitful crop. Deep love - true heart love - must grow”
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
― Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.”
― The Privilege of the Sword
― The Privilege of the Sword
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