Tien Quotes

#1. The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

Miuccia Prada

#2. Chess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.

Savielly Tartakower

#3. Marriage can bore you but there is a fortitude that comes from it, too. When you need to lean on it, you are so thankful that you can.

Ellen Tien

#4. Choose what's important to you, Macy. Not for the moment, but for eternity.

Rachel Hauck

#5. O God, how lovely still is life!

Friedrich Schiller

#6. It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

C.S. Lewis

#7. That was why he'd come back. It was about Tien, it was about Dalinar, and it was about what was right - but most of all, it was about protecting people. This was the man he wanted to be.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. so the knowledge of their presence remained, for the time being, strictly within the bounds of people's private thoughts, lying dormant in a corner of their minds like a secret language spoken only at home.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. I find I need less sleep as I grow older, and I am grown very old. I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday.

George R R Martin