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1 " Never be so focused on picking a lock that you forget kicking down the door is also an option. "
― Mark Lawrence , Grey Sister (Book of the Ancestor, #2)
2 " Nothing is as cruel as a righteous man. "
3 " Spend too long watching the long game and the short game will kill you. "
4 " There is a purity in rage. It will burn out sorrow. For a time. It will burn out fear. Even cruelty and hatred will seek shelter, rage wants none of them, only to destroy. Rage is the gift our nature gives to us, shaped by untold years. Why discard it? "
5 " your weaknesses have more to teach you than your strengths. "
6 " It's when your power is taken, or given, away that you discover who your friends are, brother. There's a lesson for us all in that. "
7 " The greatest threat to any faith is not other faiths or beliefs but the corruption and division of its own message "
8 " words are steps along a path—the important thing is to get where you’re going. "
9 " There’s a paralysis in choice, especially when what’s at stake is more precious to a person than what they own. "
10 " The hard part wasn’t staying the course, it was turning from it. Too many steps taken, and leaving would cease to be an option—at least leaving and remaining whole. That was true of many paths perhaps. "
11 " Those novices are my friends and I would die for them. I would face a terror for them that I haven’t the courage to stand against on my own behalf. "
12 " You may be rocks but humanity is the tide and you only have to stand upon the sand to see how that contest concludes. "
13 " They could speak now, as adults, not separated by that gulf between a child’s ignorance and a grown-up’s sorrows. "
14 " Murder the wrong man and he'll kill you. "
15 " A parent's grief runs deeper than words can reach, novice. We speak them to help ourselves. "
16 " Are we being stupid here?” Ara frowned at her broken staff. “There’s a monster down there we know nothing about, and Jula has a frying pan. "
17 " Sister Hoe—who had charge of the wine-making—had told Nona that a heavy dose of fertilizer would coax most plants to open their leaves whatever the weather. “They can’t abide to lose the chance,” the old woman had said. “Worried some other plant will thieve it first. They’re not so different from people really. There’s not much most wouldn’t risk to stop a rival having the benefit of something they want. "
18 " But children have resilience. Children scar and those scars remain across the years, but children grow too. Kettle grew around her hurts and learned to laugh again—learned wickedness as they taught her scripture—learned the swiftness of her body and the sharpness of her mind. She grew into a woman and learned to love and to be loved. "
19 " In any game of bets and forfeit the bluff was always of more importance than whatever might be written in the cards held tight against your chest. "
20 " But when we’re left to our own devices it’s not long before someone, often greedy for power and influence, takes it upon themselves to change the Ancestor’s teachings, just a little bit, but in a way that makes that person more important or special or allows them privilege. "
