De Castell Quotes

#1. Nehra frowned. "Do you always run headlong into certain death?" "Sometimes he walks," Dariana said. "Occasionally he shuffles. Once I'm pretty sure I saw him amble into certain death." Nehra rolled her eyes. "You risk your lives on foolish odds.

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#2. He'd told me the world could be the most lovely place you could imagine, so long as your imagination was fueled by love.

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#3. I walked over and hugged him, knowing it would only make things worse for him. I don't get that many chances to torture Brasti.

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#4. Words matter. Without words you can't have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats.

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#5. Every society has atrocities in its past, Kellen. Do you think the Daroman empire was built on nothing but courage and military brilliance?
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#6. I'm a woman, kid. You probably haven't met one before, coming as you do from this backward place, but it's like a man only smarter and with bigger balls.

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#7. ... he had known darkness and despair, and emerged determined to light candles for everyone else.

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#8. I must have encountered the Duke somewhere on the road because I was carrying a sack with me and his head was in it.

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#9. First thing you learn wandering the long roads, kid. Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story.
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#10. When you're fighting a crowd, it's good to shout potentially threatening things like "Crossbows!" or "Fire!" or "Giant Flying Cat!" every once in a while.

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#11. Another trap. Never let yourself be tricked into comparing one woman with all others; it rarely turns out well.

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#12. Despite my repeated attempts, my hands refused to reach out and wrap themselves around Brasti's throat. The

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#13. Happiness is a series of grains of sand spread out in a desert of violence and anguish.

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#14. She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all," she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world."
Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer.

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#15. Everyone shush now,' I said, taking a step towards the guards. 'I'm about to be impressive.

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#16. History is written by the victors,' she said, 'but the truth has a way of revealing itself.

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#17. Some deaths are worse than others. The one you go to is the worst of all.

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#18. I wondered, not for the first time, that the world could bear the weight of so many foul people. "Besides,

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#19. If Kest ever becomes a Saint, the transcendent expression of an ideal, he's going to be Saint Kest-who-never-fucking-learns.

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#20. Gods, man, don't you start now,' I said softly. 'We're going to get a terrible reputation if we just keep travelling across the countryside crying all the time.

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#21. If not us, then who? Who's going to stand when everyone else kneels? Who's going to argue for the law even when there's no justice to be had? Who's going to try even when the trying is too damn hard?

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#22. The archer is the true weapon; the bow is just a long piece of wood.

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#23. Your ancient enemy is basically just a really, really big squirrel

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#24. We all got ugliness inside us, Kellen. Yours is worse? Then fight harder. Figure it out. But don't you ever pretend you don't have a choice.

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#25. Why is life so much easier to live when people are trying to take it from you than when you're forced to actually live it?

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#26. But no man is all one thing; none of us are pure in our beliefs or our devotions. We are all bound by the frailties of our humanity, some of which feed our hatred, some of which, very occasionally, make us want to be something better.

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#27. That's what being free means - not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you'll die for.

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#28. I don't know how well I can fight, or run, or judge, but when the blade comes, I swear on whatever they want me to swear on, I'll stop it, with my body if nothing else.

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#29. Never trust a man who brings a hundred soldiers to a wedding

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#30. It's stories that inspire people to change. It's stories that make them believe things can be better.

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