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The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3) QUOTES

The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3) QUOTES

1 " Her anger, so useful just moments before, was getting the better of her now. She could hear it; she was too loud. Nira had counseled her again and again on the importance of holding her tongue and her peace. Ironic, given the source, but good advice all the same. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

2 " If you intend to heal the breach,” she went on, “as you claim. If you intend to abide by the treaty we have both signed, then I am the Emperor, Annur’s Emperor, and your Emperor, and you will address me properly.”

“I’ve always found that those most insistent on their titles,” Moss replied, “are those least deserving of them. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

3 " The mind is a flame. Blow it out, or it will blind you. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

4 " Justice, as it turned out, was a lot harder than war. War was largely a series of technical questions, a matter of taking living human bodies and making them dead. There were infinite variations in the tactics and the strategy, of course, nuances in weaponry and technique, but the basic premise was bedrock: you’d done it right if you were alive at the end of the day, and the other poor fool was not. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

5 " Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it. Fools search for freedom, but there is no freedom. There is only the embrace. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

6 " It was strange the way that people venerated truth. Everyone seemed to strive for it, as though it were some unalloyed good, a perfect gem of glittering rectitude. Women and men might disagree about its definition, but priests and prostitutes, mothers and monks all mouthed the word with respect, even reverence. No one seemed to realize how stooped the truth could be, how twisted and how ugly. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

7 " Hope, as usual, proved to be a miserable bitch. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

8 " If the people are foolish, he said, it is because their leader has failed them. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

9 " Never speak to a crowd. Her father’s words, measured and steady. Especially not a crowd of thousands. Always speak to a single person. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

10 " Live now. The future is a dream. Triste "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

11 " The more you try to see, the less you will notice. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

12 " some truths were jagged as a rusty blade, horrible, serrated, irremovable, lodged forever in the insubstantial substance of the soul. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

13 " Like waves, men and women exist only in motion, in change. Put them on the page, and you have already failed. And "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

14 " Your words are boxes built too small to hold the truth. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

15 " sometimes goodness and nobility aren’t enough. Sometimes, when the monsters come, you need a dark, monstrous thing to pit against them. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

16 " You had to admire her, and you had to do it fast, because she was about to get all kinds of killed. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

17 " Sometimes, when the monsters come, you need a dark, monstrous thing to pit against them. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

18 " It is a meager freedom that leaves no scars "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

19 " Power appeared to be something that a ruler had, that she held, that she had taken from the people. The appearance was false. Power was something people gave, gave willingly, even if they didn’t know it, even if they resented it. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)

20 " Nira snorted. “Just when you were creepin’ toward the border a’ smart, ya had to fuck it up by jumpin’ back into a whole bucket a’ stupid. "

― Brian Staveley , The Last Mortal Bond (Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne, #3)