Top 39 Michelle Sagara West Quotes
#2. Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered.
"What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail."
"We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.
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#3. Kill me now."
"Nonsense. Dead, you will provide no relief from the interminable boredom."
Everyone needed a purpose in life. Kaylin, however, wished fervently for a better one at this moment.
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#4. You are an ... animal? A talking animal?"
Without missing a beat, Teela said, "Of course not. She's much, much harder to train.
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#5. There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been.
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#6. The end of the world is easy. We'll survive it, or we won't. But if we do survive, the rest of life is waiting.
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#7. It made no sense, but nothing did at the moment, and at least this was a good crazy.
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#8. What did she say?'
'She made her displeasure with his existence clear.'
'That's it?'
'She made some claims about how she was going to alleviate her displeasure.
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#9. Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.
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#10. When you have all eternity, the word hurry is relative."
"And the guards, being mortal, have less of it, and their version of slugglish doesn't approach your version of fast?"
"Something very like that.
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#11. In youth,' he said, speaking as if from a great distance, 'we believe, and the death of belief forces us to disavow all belief. But that disavowal, time softens, and if we do not believe, we hope. Belief is easier to kill, somehow, and its death easier to bear.
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#12. I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.
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#13. No ... if the world demanded their deaths in return for safety, she would have watched it burn.
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#14. She had managed to go almost three weeks without being late. Admittedly on two of those days she'd perambulated around the office like someone doing a good imitation of the walking dead - but she'd been timely walking dead, damn it.
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#15. I'm missing something, aren't I?"
"Brains", he snapped. "And survival instinct. The Hawklord's been waiting for you for three hours."
"Tell him I'm dead.
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#16. Manners,[ ... ] are severly underappreciated in my opinion".
"Oh?"
Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.
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#17. Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.
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#18. If I need something you can't give, I need to walk away, because sooner or later, all I'll see is what you can't give. I won't be able to see what you can.
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#19. Who wouldn't put an entire world on the line for the off chance of getting their hands on a creature that doesn't sleep and won't leave them alone?
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#20. Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.
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#22. The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn't look too closely at another person's pain.
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#23. I'm never going to understand the Barrani."
"You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either."
"Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.
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#24. It's always easier,' he offered at last, 'when you feel these things yourself; seeing them in other people reveals just how ugly they are.
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#25. Is this some sort of test?"
"Everything that doesn't kill you is."
"Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.
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#26. I'm sworn to uphold his laws. Saying that you killed someone because they annoyed you isn't codified as acceptable, by those laws, anywhere I'm aware of."
"You are clearly not looking carefully enough.
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#27. I don't make the laws, I just enforce them."
"Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking.
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#28. There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.
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#29. If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.
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#30. Not all of our heartless plans work as we intend; nor do all of our good intentions. We are where we are, and we can rarely predict where we will go, no matter how firm our beliefs.
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#31. The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.
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#32. At the very least, if I have not - yet- chosen to end your life, I refuse to allow any of my kin to forever deprive me of my prerogative to do so.
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#33. History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.
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#34. Chase stretched. "I'll give you the week." And he held up his pinky.
Eric grimaced. He HATED this part.
"Shake on it, pinky shake, or we don't have a deal."
"You're an asshole," Eric told him.
"Pretty much." He waited until Eric did, in fact, lock pinkies with him.
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#35. The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
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#36. You'll be with me, won't you?"
"indeed."
"Then what could go wrong?"
Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods.
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#37. Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow - hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.
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#38. Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.
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