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"This book will break me. Can't continue right now." — Feb 24, 2026 12:12PM
"This book will break me. Can't continue right now." — Feb 24, 2026 12:12PM
“Where is the difference between holy and possessed? I wondered. When does miracle become magic, magic become witchcraft? Is it in the nature of the deed itself, or in the eye of the beholder? Is it decided in the telling after the fact, and if so does it depend on who does that telling?”
― Priest of Bones
― Priest of Bones
“The deader a man gets, the more honest he becomes. Lies are a vice of the living.”
― The Providence of Fire
― The Providence of Fire
“I judge people two ways—on how they treat animals, and on what they like to eat. If their favorite food is some kind of salad, they are definitely a bad person. Anything with cheese, they are probably OK.”
― The Last House on Needless Street
― The Last House on Needless Street
“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“People kill to get power, they kill to keep power, and they kill if they think they might lose it, which is pretty much always. Even if you and I both stay out of it, even if we both die, whoever came after us will keep coming. They’ll find the next threat, the next worrisome voice, the next person with the wrong name or the wrong skin. Maybe they’ll go after the rich for their coin or the peasants for their rice, the Bascans because they’re too dark or the Breatans because they’re too pale—it doesn’t matter.”
― The Providence of Fire
― The Providence of Fire
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