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Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2) QUOTES

Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2) QUOTES

1 " Lady Placida smiled. “History seldom takes note of serendipity when it records events. And from what I have heard, I suspect an argument could be made that you very much did earn the title.”

“Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.”

Lady Placida laughed. “True enough. But perhaps that is beginning to change.” She offered her hands. “It is a distinct pleasure to meet you, Steadholder. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

2 " ...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held in contempt by most of your kind here because you have no sorcery... I have seen you protect others, though they consider you to be weaker than they. I have seen a very few decent people, like the boy we took from the tower. I have seen women trade pleasure for coin to feed their children, and others do the same so that they could ignore their children while making themselves foolish with wines and powders. I have seen men who labor as long as the sun is up go home to wives who hold them in contempt for never being there. I have seen men beat and use those whom they should protect, even their own children. I have seen your kind place others of their own in slavery. I have seen them fighting to be free of the same. I have seen men of the law betray it, men who hate the law be kind. I have seen gentle defenders, sadistic healers, creators of beauty scorned while craftsmen of destruction are worshiped. Your Kind, Aleran, are the most vicious and gentle, most savage and noble, most treacherous and loyal, most terrifying and fascinating creatures I have ever seen. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

3 " Meanwhile the whole of the Realm worries that I may already have seen my last winter, yet have appointed no heir to succeed me—while High Lords like Aquitaine seem ready to swim to the throne through a river of blood, if necessary.” Miles considered the enormity of it for a moment in silence. “Balls. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

4 " Bernard had become, not so much important to her as he was natural to her whole being. He was as much a part of her thoughts as breath, food, and sleep. At once present and not present, conspicuous with his absence and filling her with a sense of completion when he was there. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

5 " But hardly old. Went silver early, I’d say. That’s always attractive in a man. It means he has both power enough to have responsibilities and conscience enough to worry over them. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

6 " If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things. Drops of ink are shaped into letters, letters form words, words form sentences, and sentences combine to express thought. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

7 " Trials and half a dozen smaller "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

8 " There are old swordsmen and bold swordsmen. But few old, bold swordsmen. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

9 " Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

10 " Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

11 " Could a man's heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive? "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

12 " He seemed to be at that most dangerous of ages, where strength, skill, and confidence met naïveté and idealism; when young men skilled at the crafts of violence could be manipulated into employing those skills with brutal efficiency--and without questions. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

13 " You will probably find, in life, that successes and victories tend to overshadow the risks you took, while failure will amplify how idiotic they were. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

14 " You are different. That does not make you less. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

15 " It gets too hot in there after a long test,” he told Ehren. “The air gets all squishy.” “It’s called humidity, Tavi,” Ehren said. “I haven’t slept in almost two days. It’s squishy. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

16 " Ambitions are incompatible with consciences, you know. The two strangle one another straightaway and leave an awful mess behind them. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

17 " Oh, dear.” “Oh dear?” Bernard asked. She reached up and touched her throat, where Bernard’s ring still hung by its chain. “Oh, dear. We’ve survived. We’re alive. And . . . and we’re wed.” Bernard blinked a few times, then mused, “Why, yes. I suppose that’s true. We’ve lived. And we’ve married. I suppose now we’ll have to stay together. Perhaps even be in love.” “Exactly,” Amara repeated, closing her weary eyes with a sigh and leaning against the broad strength of his chest. “This ruins everything. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

18 " I like complaining. It’s every soldier’s sacred right, "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

19 " all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things. Drops of ink are shaped into letters, letters form words, words form sentences, and sentences combine to express thought. So it is with the growth of plants that spring from seeds, as well as with walls built of many stones. So it is with mankind, as the customs and traditions of our progenitors blend together to form the foundation for our own cities, history, and way of life. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)

20 " Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way. "

― Jim Butcher , Academ's Fury (Codex Alera, #2)