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1 " We love books because they are the greatest escape. That is because our own minds eye is the purest form of virtual reality. "
― M.R. Mathias
2 " Just because it isn't perfect, doesn't mean it isn't awesome. "
― M.R. Mathias , The Sword and the Dragon (The Wardstone Trilogy, #1)
3 " If the pen really is mightier than the sword then you guys better watch out, because I wrote my whole 700,000 w0rd trilogy in longhand! "
4 " If you look deeply into my eyes, you will see my eyeballs. "
5 " Karma is a tricky thing. To serve Karma, one must repay good Karma to others. To serve Karma well, one must sometimes deliver bad Karma where it is due. "
6 " A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a thousand words is only three pages. "
7 " You must rise above them, for what other people think of you matters very little. It’s what you think of yourself that matters. "
― M.R. Mathias , Dragon Isle (The Legend of Vanx Malic, #2)
8 " Don’t worry about how you got here. You are here, and if you want to survive you have to keep doing everything that needs getting done. "
― M.R. Mathias , The Royal Dragoneers (The Dragoneers Saga #1)
9 " Was humanity, or even life itself, that significant in the grand scheme of things? Wasn’t humanity's survival directly related to nature's decline? "
10 " If you are one in a million, there are seven thousand of you on the planet. "
11 " A day later, when a pair of dark wolves came sniffing around, they found him. Lemmy couldn’t help but giggle with delight as they tore him apart and ate him. *** "
― M.R. Mathias , The Emerald Rider (The Dragoneer Saga, #4)
12 " Too many of his people had returned from their travels through the realms of men with sad and pathetic tales of jealousy and hatred toward his kind. What always irritated him most about the stories was that he was as much human as he was Zythian. By all rights, he should hate himself for one half being envious of the other. "
― M.R. Mathias , Through the Wildwood (The Legend of Vanx Malic, #1)
13 " they placed around their campfire "
― M.R. Mathias , The Complete WardstoneTrilogy
14 " this birthing celebration. No longer would elven society hide itself away from the kingdom folk. They would embrace each other and celebrate life. After all, Tamaerra was as much human as she was elf. Dieter Willowbrow became known throughout the Forest of Evermore as the elf who saved their whole race from annihilation. The Queen Mother offered Dieter the position of Master of Defense, but after fighting a war and reading the stories that Vaegon had written in his journal, Dieter found that the forest couldn’t contain his curiosity anymore. He declined in order to join the great wizard Hyden Hawk and his band of demon hunters. Bzorch, the mighty Lord of Locar, fought snappers, dactyls, and packs of zard for months while struggling to get out of the marshes. The fall he took hadn’t killed him. He found a rise on which to rest while he healed. He lived off of snappers and small geka until he was ready. Then he covered himself with the moss that hung from the swamp trees so he looked like one of the trolls that the typical marsh denizens seemed to avoid. He spent three long months fighting his way through the "
