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1 " Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.Sonea: I love you too. "
― Trudi Canavan , The High Lord (Black Magician Trilogy, #3)
2 " My soul is the gods’; my heart is yours.Leiard smiled—a sly, secretive smile. It was an expression she had never seen him wear before. Was this just her mind embellishing the mood she sensed from him? I’ve always suspected souls were a concept the gods invented to encourage people to serve them. In fact, I once had a conversation with a god in which he admitted that — "
― Trudi Canavan
3 " It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there. "
― Trudi Canavan , The Magicians' Guild (Black Magician Trilogy, #1)
4 " Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money? "
5 " Happy endings are a luxury of fiction. "
― Trudi Canavan , Priestess of the White (Age of the Five, #1)
6 " How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them? "
7 " He had given her too much. He had given her everything. "
8 " Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity. "
― Trudi Canavan , Voice of the Gods (Age of the Five, #3)
9 " Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness. "
10 " Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. "
11 " What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed. "
― Trudi Canavan , The Ambassador's Mission (Traitor Spy Trilogy, #1)
12 " If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind. "
― Trudi Canavan , The Magician's Apprentice (Black Magician, #0.5)
13 " Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves. "
14 " Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot. "
15 " Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic. "
16 " Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words. "
― Trudi Canavan , The Traitor Queen (Traitor Spy Trilogy, #3)
17 " Cold, truthful common sense was harder to like than warm, hopeful generosity. "
18 " He liked the idea that if either of them ever fell from grace, the other might be there to offer support. "
19 " Achati chuckled. "You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women. "
20 " Your supposed to drink wine, my friend, not breathe it. "
― Trudi Canavan , The Novice (Black Magician Trilogy, #2)
