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The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2) QUOTES

The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2) QUOTES

1 " Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

2 " Embrace the pain, Sharum. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

3 " To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

4 " Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

5 " All men are brothers in the night. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

6 " He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

7 " Why are you doing this?” Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mother’s, but every word clear. “My mother would not be so kind to one who tried to poison her.”
“Nor would mine, but we are not our mothers, Amanvah,” Leesha said. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

8 " How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?”
“The Creator didn’t make love conditional,” Jona said. “Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

9 " Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

10 " My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves.”
“Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away,” Abban replied. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

11 " Weakness shown is worse than weakness felt. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

12 " Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

13 " I have rare moments of competence. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

14 " Perhaps I am broken, he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have my day in the sun. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

15 " The only man who can truly handle a woman is a woman, Abban’s father had said to him many times before he died. It was good advice. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

16 " The Evejah tells us: When a man’s purse is empty, his rivals grow bolder. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

17 " World’s full of things to lose yourself in. Don’t mean we should spend our whole lives behind the wards. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

18 " There’s nothing gained in lamenting what never was. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

19 " There is no man in creation who is not your brother No woman not your sister, no child not your own For all suffer the Plague, righteous and sinful alike And all must band together to withstand the night. "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)

20 " In his mind, the book, as much as anything in the world, was responsible for the wretched state of humanity—cowering and weak when they should stand strong; always afraid, never hopeful. But for all that, many of the Canon’s sentiments about brotherhood and the fellowship of men were ones the Warded Man believed in deeply. He "

― Peter V. Brett , The Desert Spear (Demon Cycle, #2)