Home > Work > Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
41 " Forgiving the Day. Even the youngest child could do this; all it required was looking back over the day and dismissing the day’s pains as a thing that were past while choosing to remember as gains lessons learned or moments of insight. "
― Robin Hobb , Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
42 " No man becomes a pirate because he wants to be ruled by another. "
43 " Even if you cage his flesh and forbid him to utter his thoughts, even to cutting out his tongue, you cannot still a man's soul. "
44 " alone came, pitched in a normal tone but carrying clearly. ‘Somehow,’ she said coldly, ‘you have confused profitable and not profitable with right and wrong. "
45 " Artists and whores, gold always bought them. An artist was no more than a whore who had been well-paid. "
46 " She stared at him suspiciously. ‘You drank all "
47 " And my father is dead. She did not speak the words aloud, but the reality of them cut her again, deeper and sharper. It seemed to her that each time she thought she had grasped the fact of his death, a few moments later it struck her again even harder. "
48 " Perhaps the only thing about him that had been remarkable was that he had been given a chance. "
49 " And somehow by not speaking out on his own behalf, he made it impossible for anyone else to object. "
50 " That little knife of knowing stabbed into her at every step. "
51 " He was stupid, stupid, stupid, and his only hope of surviving was in not letting anyone else know how stupid he was. "
52 " The Chalcedean slave trade had largely created the pirates and their settlements. "
53 " When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement. "
54 " Somehow,” she said coldly, “you have confused profitable and not profitable with right and wrong. I, however, have not. "
55 " There he remained, not leaning on the railing but standing straight beside her. He looked far ahead to a distant horizon. To a future he had been promised that now seemed far further than days or distance could make it. "
56 " Shall not I drive you through seas no other man would dare, shall not we together see lands that are the stuff of legends? Shall not we venture together under skies where the stars have not been named yet? Shall not we, you and I, weave such a tale of our adventures that the whole world will be in awe of us? "
57 " Was not that truly the greatest benefit of wealth, that it allowed one to treat family and friends to what they deserved? "
58 " Awe flowed through him with his blood. Tree. Bark and sap, the scent of the wood and the leaves fluttering overhead. Tree. But also the soil and the water, the air and the light, all was coming and going through the being known as tree. He moved with them, sliding in and out of an existence of bark and leaf and root, air and water. "
59 " A true priest of Sa had little use for guilt. It but obscured; if something made a man feel bad then he must determine what about it troubled him, and eliminate that. Simply to suffer the discomforts of guilt did not indicate a man had improved himself, only that he suspected he harbored a fault. "
60 " There is coincidence and there is fate. I am more than willing to argue with coincidence. But the few times I have argued with fate, I have lost. Badly. "