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01c. 1950 AD

Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.

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02c. 1950 AD

...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.

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03c. 1950 AD

It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

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04c. 1950 AD

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

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05c. 1950 AD

When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.

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06c. 1950 AD

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

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07c. 1950 AD

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

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08c. 1950 AD

It seems to me that evil is a kind of ultimate greed, a greed that is so all-encompassing that it can't ever see anything lovely, rare, or precious without wanting to possess it. A greed so total that if it can't possess these things, it will destroy them rather than chance that someone else might have them. And a greed so intense that even having these things never causes it to lessen one iota -- the lovely, the rare and the precious never affect it except to make it want them.

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09c. 1950 AD

[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.

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10c. 1950 AD

She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.

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11c. 1950 AD

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

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12c. 1950 AD

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

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13c. 1950 AD

Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.

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14c. 1950 AD

You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and time grows heavy." Lanya glanced at the sky.

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15c. 1950 AD

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

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16c. 1950 AD

Nevertheless, now that I have met you, I know that all that I am, and all that I have, could not match what you are worth.

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17c. 1950 AD

We believe that all those who are served should also spend time serving.

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18c. 1950 AD

Words and love together can more often achieve what magic cannot.

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19c. 1950 AD

Van, Van, we’re only simple, fallible mortals - we aren’t saints, we aren’t angels - we fall on our faces and make errors and sometimes people die of them - sometimes people we love dearly -

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20c. 1950 AD

I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.

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21c. 1950 AD

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

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22c. 1950 AD

...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.

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23c. 1950 AD

Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons.

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24c. 1950 AD

It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place

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