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The Widow's House (The Dagger and the Coin, #4) QUOTES

The Widow's House (The Dagger and the Coin, #4) QUOTES

1 " How long can you pretend to be something before you aren’t pretending anymore? "

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2 " Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended. "

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3 " You have all the time there is between right now and whenever it’s too late. "

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4 " Even a man persuaded that the great powers of the heavens loved him above all else could starve. However powerful a story might be, it had its limits, and the brute material world didn't listen or care what priests and bankers told it. "

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5 " Speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core of speculation requires the absence of judgement. "

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6 " The thing that had been her son smiled at her, misunderstanding. It was good enough. "

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7 " Did we win?” Salan asked as Karol stood. “Hell yes, we did,” Karol said, glad that he didn’t have to lie to say it. “You just stay there and wait your turn. And don’t get impatient. We don’t rush the cunning men for pinpricks and scrapes.” “Be all right with me if they rushed a little, sir. "

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8 " Children are who they are. I may love them all, but I know them too. Their feet are as much clay as my own. It hardly matters what path we’ve walked to become what we are. Whatever it was, we’ve walked it. "

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