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“She was home on this island in sight of nothing.”

“Friends come and go they are merely people that you are thrown close to by circumstance.”

“…and that the dead have grown larger than now. They are of all time, and none.” Wow.

“No two loves are the same. But they are all loves.”

“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a door opens.
The starving dead crawl out, mouths full of dust, and reach for a home that has already forgotten them.
Their stomachs scream for food, but their tongues are heavy and dry, their necks as thin as needles. They lick the tears of the living from the dirt, and sometimes, it is enough to sate them.
But sometimes, the hunger only yawns wider.”
Wild.

“You can’t save people Danny, they are always, in the end themselves.”

“It’s not enough to follow a dream at the cost of stability.”

“But not everyone has dreams. Some people just are, the way that trees and rocks and rivers are just there without a reason, the rest of the world moving around them.”

“To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree. He has written in advance, and has presented to others; to receive a woman’s love is to have a very personal letter written on one’s body.”

Tut tut, Buehlman is trying to fit in with Romantasy crowd here. Unnecessary comment and poorly conveyed in prose as well. Minus one star.

“ But like many precious kept things she was lonely.”

The hill is larger than it is in life, but this is the way we dream things from childhood.

“1000 flatterers are not worth one person who is willing to wipe your ass.”

“This has been a hard skill to learn, the forgiving of self, and it is not always easy to know when it is good and when it is indulgent. But there is not so much time in life that we should spend it being sorry.”

“I will admit that, in addition to being petty, sometimes, I am also vulnerable to find things, and this Brandy was beyond anything I had ever tasted at once warm and friendly, beautiful and old, a song and a breathless sprint”

“ it is good to remember those who stand.”

“Few gifts, survey soldier, as well as finding beauty and ugly places, and humor in the lap of fear.”

“I wonder if any of us had a choice about our judgments or if we were forced into circumstances beyond our control into our own orbits our own pathways.”

The Battle of Poitiers “Men trod in their own guts and spat out their teeth; many were cloven to the ground or lost their limbs while on their feet. Dying men fell in the blood of their companions and groaned under the weight of corpses until the Gabe out their last breath. The blood of serfs and princes flowed in one stream into the river.” - Geoffrey le Baker

“We don’t often make laws to enforce what everyone is already doing. Instead, we make laws to stop people from doing something we don’t want them to do.”

“It’s an uncomfortable truth that most societies are held together far more loosely than those living within them care to recognize: Apply enough pressure, and the cracks in any community will quickly show.”

“It’s finally started hasn’t it?” Oh my god! This book is crack!

“Richard, the Lionheart, in his captivity, had supposedly refused to render respect to the holy Roman emperor, proclaiming rather famously that he was ‘born of a rank that recognizes no superior, but God.’”

“ Our attention to the present fundamentally shapes our definition of the past. As we change, as our interest change, so does our understanding of history.”

“Judge not the parent who keeps silent to their child’s cry. There are too many reasons in heaven and earth to disappoint the ones we care for.”

But you know as well as any guilty party that no one thought stands alone. That there is a city within you, populated by both high- and lowborn beliefs, interjections, prayers, rantings.

“And so he laid down that night by the dying fire with little thought as the inner workings of his body-the chemistry of the equipment inheritance that began as the acids of a stomach method, narrow and potent flesh of a God”

“If only there were a way to prolong the inevitable. If only there were a way to hold a moment in your hands and keep it alive forever.”

“‘Do you get nervous before a battle?’ Jun asked…’Yes,’ Keema said. ‘I get nervous.’ Jun chuckled. ‘Why is that funny?’ Keema asked…’Fear is not something my brothers would ever admit to. I’ve never met any warrior who would admit to such weakness.’ ‘It’s not a weakness,’ Keema said. ‘Oh?’ ‘Fear keeps you alive.’”

“A peacock amongst its ostentation is mighty, but a peacock alone will be torn apart by those he once hunted”

“But none of them said anything, just as you had said nothing when your own father had left, for there are moments in this life that speak clearly for themselves.”