Top 78 Peter V Brett Quotes
#1. Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.
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#2. He bowed. "With respect, Sharum Ka, how are we to get your warriors to the city on the lake to conquer it without boats?" "We will build our own. How hard can it ... " Jayan trailed off, looking at the huge cargo vessels with their intricate rigging. "Put them out!" he cried.
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#3. There have been discussions of doing 'The Demon Cycle' on both large and small screen scale, and while there is no project currently in development, I think the series has both the big imagery and complex character development to have legs either as a TV series or film franchise.
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#4. People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.
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#5. You can't help everyone, Arlen," Ragen said, "but you should make every
effort to help those you can.
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#6. Arlen welcomed the pain, for it meant he was alive when he had no right to be.
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#7. There's a wide world out there, for those willing to brave the dark.
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#8. We all make mistakes, Gared. But those that can see 'em are halfway to being better men.
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#9. I've been obsessed with demons since reading 'The Elfstones of Shannara' and 'Master of the Five Magics' by Lyndon Hardy.
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#11. I am the palm and this is only wind. I will bend, but I will not break.
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#12. I learned a lot from this book, because I wrote it myself. My rating may be somewhat biased as a result.
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#14. There is no man in creation who is not your brother No woman not your sister, no child not your own For all suffer the Plague, righteous and sinful alike And all must band together to withstand the night.
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#15. Because Ragen is kind hearted and strong at the same time, and I know how rare that kind of man is. Because I never doubted that he loved me, and would come back. But most of all, because the moments I had with him were worth all the ones apart.
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#16. You are my daughter. I would love you if you put out the sun.
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#17. Their families bled for him, and he repaid them in candy.
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#18. Why are you doing this?" Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mother's, but every word clear. "My mother would not be so kind to one who tried to poison her."
"Nor would mine, but we are not our mothers, Amanvah," Leesha said.
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#20. A fool's a man who knows better and does the thing anyway, his father's voice said.
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#22. The ward designs were co-created by myself and Lauren K. Cannon. She read how they were described in 'The Warded Man,' and we had long discussions about what sources to draw from for the symbols, drawing inspiration from Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Sanskrit.
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#23. He took a step back the way he had come.
No, he decided. Going back is Da's way. Whatever happens, I'm going forward.
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#24. Rojer nodded, but his eye grew wet. Leesha squeezed his hand. "Herb Gatherers see death often," she told him. "No one, no one, ever goes to the Creator with all their business complete. We all get a different length of time, but it needs to be enough, regardless.
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#25. Choose a book," she said. "Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.
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#26. Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when they realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.
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#27. Fear and pain are only wind. Let it blow past you.
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#28. It seems our cultures are a natural insult to each other Par'chin," Jardir said.
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#29. The future was a living thing, and could never be truly known. It rippled with change whenever someone used free will to make a choice. But
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#30. As he watched the creatures that had stolen his world for another night, Arlen dreamed of bringing those wards back. He dreamed of traveling beyond Tibbet's Brook, and resolved that he would leave one day, even if it meant spending a night outside.
With the demons.
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#32. How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?"
"The Creator didn't make love conditional," Jona said. "Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.
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#33. Even after all these years, there was something he knew he needed to prove. To himself, and to the night.
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#34. Bruna nodded. We keep the knowledge of the old world for the day it will be needed again, but that knowledge comes with a great responsibility. If the histories of the ancient wars of man tell us anything, it's that men cannot be trusted with the secrets of fire.
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#35. When I made the decision to really get serious about my writing, I set myself a goal of 1,000 words a day for seven days. If I got to 7,000 words before Monday I could take a day off, but I had to get there. I had to do that every week.
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#36. Folk can't learn their lessons if they skip school.
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#37. Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.
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#38. I jump around in the plotting stage, where I basically just make a bulleted list of every damn thing that happens in the entire book.
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#39. The Evejah tells us: When a man's purse is empty, his rivals grow bolder.
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#41. Kaji's ways," Abban said. "Interpreted by corrupt Damaji to their own ends over the centuries.
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#42. Ay, wait," Rojer said. "Don't I get a say in this? All a sudden I'm intended, and have to live with my new mother-in-law?" "What's wrong with my mum?" Kendall demanded. "Nothing," Rojer said. "Corespawned right," Kendall said.
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#43. My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves."
"Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away," Abban replied.
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#44. Perhaps I am broken, he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have my day in the sun.
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#45. I will respect the corelings, Arlen thought, but I will never stop fighting them.
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#46. Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it.
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#47. Love nothing so much you cannot leave it at the bargaining table.
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#48. I read every review online, and I want to respond to those, but I resist the urge to do that.
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#49. To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.
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#50. There are times in life when we feel so very alive that when they pass, we feel ... diminished. When that happens, we'll do almost anything to feel so alive again.
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#51. There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.
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#52. We cannot tell the rain when to come, nor the winter, nor the cold.
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#53. I'll take my chances with this life all the same. The next one will find you no matter where you run. No sense chasing it.
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#54. I don't pretend to see the path, but I know it's there all the same. One day, we'll look back and wonder how we ever missed it.
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#55. Hurting with words is easy," Mairy replied, echoing Leesha's earlier statement, "it's healing with them what's hard.
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#56. Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.
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#57. Can't trust no one else to do what you won't do for yourself.
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#58. Why would you do that for me?" Leesha asked.
Rojer smiled, taking her hand in his crippled one. "We're survivors, aren't we?" he asked. "Someone once told me that survivors have to look out for one another.
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#59. Few could match her wisdom, and fewer still her stubbornness.
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#60. Inevera raised an eyebrow. "You suggest I mislead the council of Damaji about what I see in the sacred dice?" Abban smiled. "Damajah, please. Do not insult us both.
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#61. One of these days, your luck won't hold, his father's voice reminded him.
Maybe, he thought back to it, but not today.
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#62. Why should I help you?" Jardir asked. "Because," the Par'chin said, "we're going to capture a mind demon and make it take us to the Core. "It's time we brought the fight to the alagai.
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#63. Book four is tentatively titled 'The Skull Throne ,' and book five is 'The Core .' It's kind of hard to talk much about them without giving away things from 'Daylight War,' however.
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#64. Pain teaches, Par'chin, Jardir had once told him, and so we give it freely. Pleasure teaches nothing, and so must be earned.
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#65. He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.
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#66. The only man who can truly handle a woman is a woman, Abban's father had said to him many times before he died. It was good advice.
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#69. Hiding isn't always enough, Arlen,' Ragen said. 'Sometimes, hiding kills something inside of you, so that even if you survive the demons, you don't really.
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#70. All the joy and color was washed from her face, and at first the sadness only made her more beautiful. But
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#71. It doesn't serve the dead to stop living yourself, out of guilt.
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#72. Don't be so quick to leave childhood behind, girl," Bruna said. "You'll find you miss it when its gone.
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#73. Corespawn it, Ren, you can't just go around cutting people's hands off!
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#74. There's nothing gained in lamenting what never was.
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#75. You can fight corelings?' he asked.
'You can fight anything, Arlen,' Ragen said. 'The problem with fighting corelings is that more often than not, you lose.
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#76. Speak not of Everam and Nie, Par'chin. You believe in neither." "And still better at your religion than you!
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#77. Don't go getting swollen because you got lucky once. Any Messenger alive will tell you to stay out at night when you have to, not because you want to. The ones that want to always end up cored.
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#78. World's full of things to lose yourself in. Don't mean we should spend our whole lives behind the wards.
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