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61 " I pity the man who can’t cry. "
― Janny Wurts , Stormed Fortress (Wars of Light and Shadow, #8)
62 " But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people! "
63 " There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written. "
64 " I trust you," she murmured through urgency. "Completely. Without end, and before the beginning. "
65 " Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard’s revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first! "
66 " But hope always kindles through striving. "
67 " Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation. "
68 " I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons. "
― Janny Wurts , Initiate's Trial (Wars of Light and Shadow, #9)
69 " Prudence, my prophet,’ the sorcerer rebuked. ‘The results of prophecies often resolve through strangely twisted circumstance.’ But if Asandir was yet aware that the promised talents were split between princes who were enemies with blood debts of seven generations, he said nothing. "
― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)
70 " Does imagination or joy come with limits? "
― Janny Wurts , Destiny's Conflict (Wars of Light & Shadow, #10)
71 " Sometimes there are no victims to save, and nothing is broken that should be fixed. "
72 " Arithon lent a disarming appearance of frailty. Beneath wind-flicked tangles of dark hair, his expression reflected the careless ennui of high-breeding, the features, sharp-faceted marble. "
― Janny Wurts , Warhost of Vastmark (Wars of Light & Shadow, #3)
73 " A masterbard's given duty was to ease the hearts of the bereaved. "
74 " Talith confronted the self-contained prince she recalled much too clearly from the tumultuous events that surrounded a failed coronation. "
75 " The curse that afflicted this scion of s'Ilessid had become everything the Fellowship of the Seven had warned and worse. "
76 " Were you going to tell me you usually kiss your one-night trollops in private?"He laughed. The free-ringing sound held a spark of pure pleasure, unforced and rich with surprise. "
― Janny Wurts , Grand Conspiracy (Wars of Light & Shadow, #5)
77 " Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?""Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams. "
78 " I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter."Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company. "
79 " There's a choice?""Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things. "
80 " Fanatics don’t choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship’s more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob.""What man who leads a pack of followers isn't? "