Top 41 Aeduan's Quotes
#1. Iseult's nostrils twitched. Her face hardened. The defiance, the determination - they were back, and against his will, Aeduan's lips twitched upward.
Susan Dennard
#2. Unbidden, a memory stirred in the back of Aeduan's mind. Another child, another basket, another lifetime, and a monk named Evrane, who had saved him from it all.
Evrane's mistake. She should have left Aeduan behind.
Susan Dennard
#3. The world shivered and smeared before him. Still, his training took over. With his free hand, he checked that his baldric was still in place. The knives ready for the grabbing.
Then he readied his stance, for though blood might burn, Aeduan's soul would not.
Susan Dennard
#4. I ask why more than I should, some days I regret the decisions I make and most mornings I wake up on edge. The three don't often combine, but today I hit the shit trifecta.
Katie McGarry
#5. Always. There was always blood where Aeduan went.
Susan Dennard
#6. So this is how I will die. Aeduan had never thought it would be flames. A beheading, perhaps. Old age, more likely. But not fire - not since he'd escaped that death all those years ago.
Susan Dennard
#7. Iseult hated herself for that truth, but there it was. She wanted to go after Safi; she wanted Aeduan to lead the way; she wished this child would simply disappear.
Monster, she told herself. You're a monster.
Susan Dennard
#8. Why so much fighting? Is the land valuable?"
"There is nothing of value here. Yet men have always believed that they know better than those who came before. That they will be the ones to claim the Contested Lands.
Susan Dennard
#11. It is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes.
Susan Dennard
#12. Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
Jack White
#13. Oh, the Bloodwitch named Aeduan was no longer bored. No longer bored at all. And now he had work to do.
Susan Dennard
#14. Our brain is not cut out for nonlinearities. People think that if, say, two variables are causally linked, then a steady input in one variable should always yield a result in the other one. Our emotional apparatus is designed for linear causality. For
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#15. Iseult knew what she had to do. She knew what Safi would do in this position. What Habim or Mathew or her mother or anyone with a backbone would do. So why was she finding it so hard to summon any words?
Susan Dennard
#16. There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense ... You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.
Larry Ellison
#17. If Bengali cuisine were Wimbledon, the hilsa would always play on Centre Court.
Samanth Subramanian
#18. Which left Aeduan, as always, on the edge of a scene, watching while the world unfolded without him beneath a darkening sky.
Susan Dennard
#19. Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon, you don't score points for past action,
Natasha Pulley
#20. Reservations were meant to be prisons, you know? Indians were supposed to move onto reservations and die. We were supposed to disappear.
Sherman Alexie
#21. Simply because I have lost faith in the cause doesn't mean the training has lost all of its usefulness.
Susan Dennard
#22. I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards.
Nicholas Sparks
#24. I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.
Robert Benton
#25. No stopping, though. Only running onward through the weak rain. Men charged with blades, but swords were so easy for Iseult to evade with Aeduan at her side. Together, they arced, they lunged, they ducked, they rolled. A fluid combination of steps built on blood and Threads.
Susan Dennard
#26. There was pain too, though Aeduan could ignore that. After all, pain was nothing new.
Susan Dennard
#27. He was younger than Iseult had imagined. No older than twenty, if she had to guess. Yet he felt old, with his voice so gruff. His language so formal.
It was in the way he carried himself too, as if he'd walked for a thousand years and planned to walk a thousand more.
Susan Dennard
#28. Sometimes justice was all about the small victories.
Susan Dennard
#30. Aeduan didn't contradict her. She was what she was, and fighting one's nature only brought pain. Sometimes death too.
Susan Dennard
#31. But now what was I worth? The books I discovered at the behest of my intellectually superior professors are now coming to me thanks to an algorithm developed to suggest what I should buy based on what other similar shoppers have also bought...
Keith Buckley
#32. As Aeduan walked onward, he was pleased to find he'd left a trail of muddy boot-prints throughout the house.
Susan Dennard
#33. Because it is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes. This land is no more cursed than any other. It is simply steeped in too much blood.
Susan Dennard
#34. A blend of desolation and outrage. Or longing and fury. She wanted him back, she never wanted to see him again.
Ian McEwan
#35. When Aeduan had said he would kill her in Lejna, she hadn't believed him. When he'd said he would kill her last night, she had.
Susan Dennard
#36. Aeduan bundled her up and stood. She was so light, so fragile. A bird in his demon arms.
Susan Dennard
#37. If we have learned anything, we have learned this: it is not the strongest of the races that survives, or the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. Thus only the Aeduan race will survive the
Jeff Wheeler
#38. This girl had fought Aeduan - tricked him and broken his spine. She had battled city guards and faced cleaved Poisonwitches head-on, yet never had Aeduan seen her show fear.
Susan Dennard
#41. Mhe varujta. Trust me as if my soul were yours.
Susan Dennard
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