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The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1) QUOTES

The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1) QUOTES

1 " Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed. "

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2 " There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust. "

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3 " I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it. "

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4 " I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this, "

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5 " I think the world is often like that.” “Like what?” “Comic, but only at the right distance. "

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6 " Death, however clearly foretold, still came unexpectedly. "

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7 " It was only later, in her new, darker rooms above the banking house, that she realized it didn’t matter how loud she screamed or how violently she wept. Her parents would never come to her because, being dead, they didn’t care anymore. "

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8 " That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain. "

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9 " Alle dead man are at peace. That's what makes them dead. "

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10 " I find a certain value in lightness. "

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11 " In the thousand years since its foundation, the city had never been taken by force, though twice it had been seduced. "

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12 " We did an evil thing, father."
"What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and pronouncing the evil wizard's defeat. We do what duty and honor demand, and often what we do is terrible. "

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13 " I've never seen God," Yardem said.
"But you believe in him," Master Kit said.
"I'm reserving judgement. "

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14 " I've loved a lot of people, and the word hasn't meant the same thing twice. "

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15 " things riding mules "

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16 " I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is the weapon that guards against it.

Yardem took the box from the old actor's hands and lifted it to the top of the pile.

"But if you doubt everything," the Tralgu said, "how can anything be justified?"

"Tentatively. And subject to later examination. It seems to me the better question is whether there's any virtue in committing to a permanent and unexamined certainty. I don't believe we can say that. "

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17 " He said that you don’t go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can’t push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren’t the same person who was in pain. "

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