Top 95 Anthony Ryan Quotes
#1. Well he could hate too, hate was easy, hate would fuel him if his mother's love could not. Loyalty is our strength. He snorted a silent laughed of derision. Let loyalty be your strength, Father. My hate for you will be mine.
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#2. Speaking it aloud would reveal the absurdity of it, and he preferred the dream.
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#3. Your men?" His face took on an expression of deep confusion. "But you came alone. He said you would come alone." His sword fell to his side as he stumbled back a few steps, his gaze distant, unfocused. "He said you would come alone
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#4. My mother used to say that men would fight and kill for money, but they would only die for their gods.
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#5. The Dark is a word for the ignorant. The people hare are Gifted. Different powers, different abilities. But Gifted. Like you.
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#6. My people do, I do not. Gods are a myth, a comforting story for children." "Such
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#7. Beware the seduction of the quick conclusion. Do not indulge in the answer you desire until you know all you need to know.
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#8. They laughed together, for a long time. Pain receded and was forgotten. They laughed and never spoke about how much it hurt.
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#9. I pray you weep no more my love, let no tears fall for my demise, lift your face to the sky above, and let the sun dry your eyes...
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#10. Liquor wasn't forbidden in the Order, but it was frowned upon by the more Faithful masters. Some said anything that dulled the senses was a barrier to the Faith, the less a man remembered of his life the less he had to take with him to the Beyond.
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#11. The day watch stayed on deck, running the rigging and undertaking the never-ending chores of ship life. A few favoured me with a customary glare or two, but none attempted to converse, a mercy for which I was grateful.
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#12. Ignorant people will believe anything if they're scared enough.
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#13. Anyone who claims they have a genius for war should be regarded as the greatest of fools. For the successful conduct of war is an exercise in the management of folly.
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#14. Give them the right lie and they'll believe it.
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#15. We found a jewel in the desert,'" I quoted. "'And from it fashioned a charred cinder.
'Queen of Fire Pg 313
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#16. Desert winds blow hard at me
Till we reach the shining sea.
And borne away across the waves
My lover's life I'll sail to save.
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#17. Is a lie really a lie if it is honestly believed?
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#18. Quite so, although our brothers and sisters in the Seventh Order do not refer to the Dark. They regard themselves as guardians and practitioners of dangerous and arcane knowledge, much of which defies such mundane concepts as names and categories.
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#19. I think I preferred him jaded. The world might be a better place were it ruled by disappointed souls.
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#20. Knowledge is what shapes us, little brothers," he told them, for once his smile was absent, his tone entirely serious. "It makes us who we are. What we know informs everything we do and every decision we make.
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#21. She greeted him with a smile, holding her hand out for him to kiss (...) Nevertheless he went to one knee and pressed his lips against her knuckles. Her flesh was warmer than he'd expected and he angered himself for enjoying the sensation.
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#22. Life isn't what you want it to be, it's what you make it become.
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#23. When he visited the stables he found Spit also had a welcome waiting. It lasted a full two minutes and Master Rensial stated confidently it was the longest fart he had ever heard a horse produce.
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#24. There was something new in his expression, something Vaelin had never seen before and couldn't name. In later years he would see it in the faces of a thousand men and know it as an old friend: fear.
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#25. War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.
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#26. It's a bad place, brother. All ruins and bare rock. Only ever seen it from a distance and it gave me the frights. Something in the air (...) Just feels bad. The Lonak call it Maars Nir-Uhlin Sol, the Place of the Stolen Souls.
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#27. Is that what I've been doing all these years? cutting my path though life? All the blood spilled and lives taken, just verses in a song?
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#28. Somehow he knew it, knew the beast and whatever commanded it had tracked them from the Firejack to the Badlands and back again. And, although it was just a small speck, he could have sworn he saw the swaddled man perched on the drake's back before it angled its wings and disappeared from view. -
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#29. A man doesn't know his true strength until he fears for his life
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#30. Battle is a hard business, sister. Soft training will make for soft soldiers, who will in turn become soft corpses.
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#31. In order to contemplate, one must have something to contemplate. A life without experience provides no chance of contemplation. Those who have not lived cannot mediate om the mysterious of life.
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#32. There were tears in his eyes but he blinked them away. "I wish to learn many things".
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#33. War? War is blood and shit and men maddened with pain calling for their mother as they bleed to death. There's no honour in it, boy." His eyes shifted, meeting Vaelin's. "You'll see it, you poor little bastard. You'll see it all.
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#34. He found his shivers receding as his resolve grew. It really wasn't that cold. The fear and horror of his night in the forest had left a mark on him, a mark that might never fade, but he would face it and overcome it. There was no other choice.
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#35. For nine more nights they trained, after an arduous day's march, Vaelin would try to turn a poet into a swordsman.
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#37. He'll feel it though, feel the pain like a knife, sticking in his guts, twisting. Pain like that can either make a boy a man or a monster.
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#38. Oh I don't always do what I'm told. I'm a bad girl. I don't do the things girls should.
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#40. Loyalty is our strength (...) Loyalty is another lie you use to trap the unwary in your designs.
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#42. The impulse to lie, to continue to wallow in secrets as he had for years, was only the faintest whisper now, a nagging sense of stepping too far on an uncharted path, easily overridden by need to tell her. If he couldn't tell her, at least he could find some comfort in confidence.
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#43. A book's value rests in the knowledge it contains, and knowledge is ever a dangerous thing.
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#44. Wise Bear said something in his own language, mouth twisting in disgust as if the words stained his tongue. He caught Vaelin's enquiring gaze and provided a terse translation, "Cat People.
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#45. A woman of keen mind but no moral scruple whatever. And an occasionally violent temper. Just how many time did you stab that merchant, Derla? I forget.
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#46. My finest student, and also my greatest disappointment.
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#47. It is the lessons we learn that change us from boys to men.
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#48. The lessons of the past guide us in the present (...) Our Faith is strengthened by the knowledge of those who have gone before us.
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#49. A fool is any man who doesn't think he's a fool.
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#51. It felt safer to run, a moving target was harder to hit. But this vague sense of security evaporated when the darkness came, it was like running in a void where every step brought the threat of a painful fall.
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#52. All knowledge is a threat to someone." Vaelin
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#53. The voice was a blood-song. He knew it instinctively. Another blood-song. The tone was different from his own, stronger and more controlled. Another voice speaking in his mind.
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#54. An overconfident enemy is prone to carelessness.
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#55. Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.
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#56. A man engaged in a constant search for the weaknesses of others, Hilemore decided. Perhaps the means by which he maintains faith in his own superiority. "Chief
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#57. One day I will write the story of our service in the Faith. I feel our Order has been sadly missing in recording its history. Do you know we are the only Order not to have its own library? (Caenis, about the Book of the Five Brothers)
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#60. He lay awake, restless, heart thumping so hard with alternating hatred and anger that he wondered if it would burst through his ribs. Panic made it beat even faster, sweat beaded his forehead and bathed his chest.
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#61. Why is it the only joy you show these days is in battle? Why do you hunger for it so? Does it makes you forget? Does it ease your pain?"
Nortah tugged his horse's reins and resume the walk to the stables. "It eases nothing. But it does make me forget, for a while at least.
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#64. Honour' is just a word. You can't eat it or drink it and yet everywhere I go men talk of it endlessly, and they all tell a different tale of what it actually means.
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#65. Those who have not lived cannot meditate on the mysteries of life.
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#66. Leadership is not learned by watching your brothers beat each other bloody. Nor is it learned by letting them fail their tests.
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#67. There was a continual sense of something hovering out of reach, a profound conclusion even then blood-song couldn't divine. But can she? And if she can, could she be trusted with the knowledge? The idea of trusting her was absurd, of course. but even the untrustworthy could be useful.
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#68. I have no need for riches, Highness. I can't be bought either.
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#69. Nature has a voice (...) Learn to hear it and you'll never be lost and no man will ever take you unawares.
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#70. a White breathing fire on a group of Spoiled kneeling in obvious supplication. An egg bathed in fire and cracking open to reveal the screaming infant Black inside, the flames fading to reveal an old man in a robe staring down at the fledgling drake with the expression of a proud father.
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#71. They can hear lies, he realized. But not thoughts. He could hide things, he didn't have to lie. Silence could be his shield.
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#72. Hide an advantage and you double its value.
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#73. The only aspect of his appearance to match his legend was his eyes: black as jet and piercing as a hawk's. They said his eyes could strip man's soul bare, that no secret could be hidden if he met your gaze.
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#74. It was said that the winds would carry into the Beyond and the Departed used them to send messages back to the Faithful, some of whom would stand for hours on hillsides straining for words of wisdom or comfort from lost loved ones.
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#75. For a moment he was lost in the scent and the closeness of her, the grief and self-loathing vanished by this new intimacy. He knew he should tell her to stop, that this was inappropriate, but found himself too intoxicated to care.
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#76. I expect the notions of personal freedom and representative government would appear radical to a slave of the corporate world." "A
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#77. Put more than one philosopher together and you'll birth an argument," Erlin commented. "A truism I've observed the world over. In fact, I once saw one argue with himself, it got quite violent in the end.
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#79. If the stars in the sky are not fixed, then nothing is fixed. Nothing is eternal, all is temporary and ever-changing." She turned away from the stars, meeting his gaze. "Nothing is fixed, my lord. No course is so set it cannot be changed.
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#80. Oh, I was born here. There's a village a few miles south of Varinshold, so small it doesn't even have a name. You'll find my kin there.
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#81. You will know him by the blade he carries and the Dark-born skill with which he wields it, for none who know the love of the Father may defeat the Darkblade, yet all must stand against him.
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#82. How far can they travel before you lose them?" Kiral asked the shaman, who seemed puzzled by the question.
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#83. Freedom brought a change in my song, made it soar, seeking out wonders and novelty.
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#84. He could feel her gaze on his torso, knowing her eyes lingered on his scars, sensing her sorrows. "Nothing I didn't earn, sister", he told her, reaching out for his razor. "All of it, and more besides".
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#85. Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.
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#86. What has happened cannot be changed, and so you cannot touch it. Change is the province of the future.
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#87. A miser is merely a pauper with fewer friends.
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#88. Caenis surveyed the celebrating crowd with naked disgust. Vaelin couldn't hear the word he mouthed but the shape of his lips carried the meaning clearly enough: "Scum.
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#89. You mistake purpose for cruelty, and I have always had a purpose. I am not mindless.
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#90. She didn't like seeing it, Vaelin realised. Didn't like seeing the killer in me.
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#91. He looked down at his hands - resting on his knees - flexing the fingers, the veins and sinews standing out clearly amidst the scars. Killer's hands, I thought, knowing they could choke the life from me in a few seconds.
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#92. What is broken remains so, it is the way of things.
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#93. Love may claim our hearts but lust will always claim our bodies. It is the traitor that lurks in every soul.
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#94. War is never good for commerce. Lest your trading in steel o'course.
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#95. Truth is the heart of the song, Rat. If you cannot hear truth, you cannot hear anything.
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