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1 " We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested. The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid. And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us. "
― , The Price of Spring (Long Price Quartet, #4)
2 " Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed. "
― , The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1)
3 " As we send our armsmen and sailors away to fight and die together; let there be peace between us. If there cannot be peace in the world, at least let it be welcome here. "
4 " There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust. "
5 " I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it. "
6 " I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this, "
7 " I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance. "
8 " Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly. "
9 " It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, being dead, they didn’t care anymore. "
10 " Every nation ends and every empire. Every baby born was going to die, given enough time. If being fated for destruction were enough to take the joy out of things, we’d slaughter children fresh from the womb. But we don’t. We wrap them in warm cloth and we sing to them and feed them milk as if it might all go on forever. "
11 " That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain. "
12 " How long can you pretend to be something before you aren’t pretending anymore? "
― , The Widow's House (The Dagger and the Coin, #4)
13 " Alle dead man are at peace. That's what makes them dead. "
14 " I find a certain value in lightness. "
15 " Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended. "
16 " You have all the time there is between right now and whenever it’s too late. "
17 " Even a man persuaded that the great powers of the heavens loved him above all else could starve. However powerful a story might be, it had its limits, and the brute material world didn't listen or care what priests and bankers told it. "
18 " In the thousand years since its foundation, the city had never been taken by force, though twice it had been seduced. "
19 " « I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them, not tears.» "
― , A Game of Thrones - Le Trône de Fer - L'intégrale (Comics)
20 " Speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core of speculation requires the absence of judgement. "