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1 " Flame is not the only fire.” Her tone turned almost stern. “You have brought your folk another spark far greater than any flame. You have opened their eyes to the world, Aljan, shown them lands and peoples formerly beyond their ken. You have whistled them out of their cramped, closed, inward-facing ring and led them into my Dance, the Great Circle and Cycle encompassing all. <…> Nay, flame has not been the greatest of my gifts to you. Knowledge, Aljan, that even now remakes the world. Knowledge is the fire. "
― Meredith Ann Pierce , The Son of Summer Stars (Firebringer, #3)
2 " Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter. "
― Catherynne M. Valente , Deathless
3 " The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving. " Why did you and your folk three times try to attack my people at their merrymaking?" asked the king. " We did not attack them," answered Thorin, " we came to beg because we were starving." " Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?" " I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the forest." " What were you doing in the forest?" " Looking for food and drink, because we were starving." " And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily. At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word. "
4 " That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is. "
― Robin Hobb , Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)
