Top 48 Trudi Canavan Quotes
#2. I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.
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#3. There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit.
- Tayend
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#4. Your supposed to drink wine, my friend, not breathe it.
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#5. Jayan found teaching both frustrating and rewarding. It depended on the apprentice. Some were attentive and talented. Some were not.
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#6. What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.
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#7. 'The Magician's Apprentice' was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.
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#8. The healers' university looked exactly as Tessia had imagined. Her father had described it as an 'old but strange building that has adopted and absorbed surrounding houses as opportunity and funds allowed'. It sounded confusing and intriguing, and it was.
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#9. Though I can't help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.
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#10. The last young lady I met stabbed me. You know I'm cursed when it comes to women.
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#11. Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.
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#12. I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a traveller's perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.
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#13. Achati chuckled. You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women.
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#14. There was no fast and painless way to perform an amputation, Tessia knew. Not if you did it properly.
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#15. It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.
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#16. She felt something inside her turn to stone and fall down into her gut, where it lay cold and hard and uncomfortable. Which was impossible, of course. Human organs did not turn to stone and certainly could not shift into the stomach.
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#17. Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
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#18. I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
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#19. Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.
Sonea: I love you too.
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#20. It had surprised and impressed Tessia to learn that Everran and Avaria owned two wagons, one for their own everyday use and one kept for visits to the Royal Palace. Since the journey to the palace consisted of half the length of two streets, it seemed frivolous to own a vehicle especially for it.
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#21. But as I witnessed what Dakova was capable of, I cared less about what the Guild did and didn't allow. He did not need black magic to perform evil. I saw him do things with his bare hands that I will never forget.
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#23. Suddenly she was all too aware how different she was. A woman among all these man. A natural from a humble background among rich young men chosen from powerful families. A beginner among the well trained.
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#24. The right rumour in the right ears can kill the emperor, as they say.
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#25. Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother's surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though ... it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.
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#26. Ranel had said that the murderer wore a ring with a red gemstone. Looking at Akkarin's hands, she was almost disappointed to see they were bare. Not even a mark to hint that a ring might have been worn regularly. His fingers were long and elegant, yet masculine ...
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#27. He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support.
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#28. Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.
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#29. When Tessia and Jayan were served a large, fat rassook each, Jayan had smugly commented that Tessia certainly had a way with villagers and he would not be surprised if she could charm pickpockets into putting money into her wallet.
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#30. I don't have any specific plans to return to the 'Age of the Five.' If I do, it won't be a sequel.
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#31. It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.
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#32. The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking
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#33. A friend. Cery's shoulders drooped. Closing his eyes, he let out a long sigh.
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#34. Friendship? What friendship? I lust after him and he rightly ignores it!
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#35. As the others paired off he turned to face her.
"Can't leave me partnerless," he said.
She pulled a face, grabbed the bowl and stood up."Forgot my little speech earlier, have you, Jayan?Not if you were the last man in Kyralia.
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#36. Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.
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#37. Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
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#38. It was a day-by-day record of a Guild much younger and smaller than the current one. After several pages, she had grown fond of the record-keeper, who clearly admired the people he was writing about.
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#39. Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.
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#40. He had given her too much. He had given her everything.
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#41. People and land, they're the same, his father used to say. Neglect one and the other suffers eventually.
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#42. How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?
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#43. Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.
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#44. There's no need for me to enter your mind, just sit at the edges and look for leakage."
"Leakage?" Veran looked at his daughter. "You magicians have some interesting terms. Not particularly reassuring ones.
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#45. Cold, truthful common sense was harder to like than warm, hopeful generosity.
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#46. 'The Black Magician Trilogy' was about a conflict between countries and was very limited and almost claustrophobic in its range of settings, while 'The Age of the Five' was about a conflict between continents.
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#47. If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.
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#48. Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.
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