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101 " Is that what all human civilisation leads to?' I asked. 'Are we destined for nothing more than endless wars and bloodshed? "
― Sebastien de Castell , Crownbreaker (Spellslinger, #6)
102 " Durral came over to us, his arms out. 'Give her to me, Rosie.''I am the Path of Thorns and Roses,' she said as she gave over Ferius.'Yeah, well today I'm the Path of I Do Not Give A Crap. "
103 " Kellen, maybe there is something inside you that you can’t change. Perhaps the more than that. Maybe evil is only evil when it’s what we can’t change combined with what we choose not to.’Maybe it’s what we can’t change combined with what we choose not to. I thought about the things I’d done in my life. I thought about Reichis and how many times he’d kept me from running. I was a coward, but his courage had sometimes been enough to make me stand and fight. I was weak and foolish, but Ferius’s wisdom had sometimes been enough to make me clever. I was a liar by instinct, but Nephenia’s fearless honesty had taught me to be truthful, sometimes even to myself. Maybe that’s how it was with the queen. I was broken inside, but what if I didn’t need to be good? What if I could just … do good? Could I still be a coward and do the brave thing? Could I still be evil and do the right thing? Wouldn’t that be one hell of a spell? "
― Sebastien de Castell , Queenslayer (Spellslinger, #5)
104 " Kellen, maybe there is something inside you that you can’t change. Perhaps the shadowblack truly is evil. But maybe it takes more than that. Maybe evil is only evil when it’s what we can’t change combined with what we choose not to.’Maybe it’s what we can’t change combined with what we choose not to. I thought about the things I’d done in my life. I thought about Reichis and how many times he’d kept me from running. I was a coward, but his courage had sometimes been enough to make me stand and fight. I was weak and foolish, but Ferius’s wisdom had sometimes been enough to make me clever. I was a liar by instinct, but Nephenia’s fearless honesty had taught me to be truthful, sometimes even to myself. Maybe that’s how it was with the queen. I was broken inside, but what if I didn’t need to be good? What if I could just … do good? Could I still be a coward and do the brave thing? Could I still be evil and do the right thing? Wouldn’t that be one hell of a spell? "
105 " You don’t reason with mobs for the same reason you don’t reason with hordes of fire ants: they’re too stupid to understand what you’re saying and eventually they’ll just swarm over you. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Saint's Blood (Greatcoats, #3)
106 " If you’re trying to turn the country into a theocracy it’s probably easier to do if everyone worships the same God. "
107 " She slapped my arm surprisingly hard. 'Not with words, with whispers.''But you said-''I said, you said... Stop saying! The spirits, the don't like loud things. That's why they come out here where it's quiet, where no people are. They don't need you talking at them, just whisper!'If it had been as simple as just whispering the words, that would have been easy. But it wasn't, as i discovered when she smacked me again. "That's just talking quiet. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Shadowblack (Spellslinger, #2)
108 " A mage's power either grows or weakens. Power never reamins still and neither does the strength of a nation. Only those who can find new sources of strength may earn a mage's name. Those who cannot, have no value to our people. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Spellslinger (Spellslinger, #1)
109 " She slapped my arm surprisingly hard. 'Not with words, with whispers.''But you said-''I said, you said... Stop saying! The spirits, they don't like loud things. That's why they come out here where it's quiet, where no people are. They don't need you talking at them, just whisper!'If it had been as simple as just whispering the words, that would have been easy. But it wasn't, as i discovered when she smacked me again. "That's just talking quiet. "
110 " There's a lot that goes into making a discordance card. Painting something, well, that's the easy part. It's imbuing with what you know about the subject, what you suspect might be happening, colouring it with evidence and shading it with uncertainty, that's what's hard. "
― Sebastien de Castell , Charmcaster (Spellslinger, #3)
111 " אבל למען האמת, אם היה עליי למות, הייתי מעדיף שמי יהרוג אותי יהיה מכוער. "
112 " Are you sure you won this duel?’ he muttered as he began prodding at my wounds. I flinched. ‘Are you sure you don’t work for the other guys? "
113 " The mob, you see, only ever has one reason for beating up a man and tying him to a post, the same reason why they do all the things they do: it’s because they’re very angry, and they’ve found someone to take it out on. "
114 " In their place a shadowblack realm, the sky above cut from ebony and the ground beneath me carved from onyx. All was black and yet I could see every detail of the landscape surrounding me with perfect clarity. "
115 " Most Beloved of All Twenty-Nine Squirrel Cat Gods, and Bearer of … “The Coolest Shadowblack Markings Ever”, Reichis The Terrible! "
116 " He was dressed in austere grey robes of the sort mages wear during meditation and struck me as remarkably plain given the ostentatious surroundings. Still he projected a kingly demeanour, as if destiny was a glow that emanated from beneath his skin. "
117 " My last thought a question I could never seem to answer. "
118 " Somehow those words cut me deeper than any rebuke. "
119 " Deato mendea valus febletta. The Gods give every man a weakness. "
120 " What if I'd never found her? What if Patriana had managed to kill all your so-called 'Charoites'? And who in all the hells calls their bastards 'Charoites' anyway? Was it really that important to make sure I had no damned idea what you'd sent me to do? What about the other Greatcoats? Are they all wandering the country trying to make sense of the last command you gave each of them? "
― Sebastien de Castell