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Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1) QUOTES

Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1) QUOTES

1 " No, as I've discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

2 " Not given to boasting, which was a waste of breath-only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world he has none. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

3 " Now there was nothing but awful, terrible silence. Sight is a sense outside and apart from the body, an image on the surface of the eye. But sound enters the ears, the head, it lives inside. In sound's absence, silence echoes. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

4 " Lizards that blend into the rock do so to catch flies. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

5 " No, as I’ve discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

6 " How would hating benefit me? The elves did what they had to do, and so did I. I learned how to sail their ships. I learned to speak their language fluently. No, as I’ve discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

7 " A ‘why’ is a dangerous thing,” said Haplo. “It challenges old, comfortable ways; forces people to think about what they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. No wonder your people are afraid of it.” “I think the danger is not so much in asking the ‘why’ as in believing you have come up with the only answer,” said Alfred, seeming almost to be talking to himself. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

8 " Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

9 " A 'why' is a dangerous thing... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo)

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I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred) "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

10 " No, as I've discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford.

And what about love? Alfred asked softly.

Hugh didn't even bother to reply. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

11 " Limbeck, the august leader of WUPP, did not mind the noise. He took comfort in it, having
listened to it, albeit somewhat muffled, in his mother's womb. The Gegs revered the noise, just as
they revered the Kicksey-Winsey. They knew that if the noise ceased their world would come to
an end. Death was known among the Gegs as the Endless Hear Nothing. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

12 " In sound’s absence, silence echoes. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

13 " Self is the only prison
that can ever bind
the soul.
—Henry Van Dyke "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)

14 " Un “perché” è sempre pericoloso – disse Haplo – mette in forse vecchi, confortevoli sistemi di vita, costringe la gente a pensare a quello che fa, anziché farlo semplicemente senza pensare. Non c'è da stupirsi se le persone ne hanno paura
- Io credo che il pericolo non risieda tanto nel chiedere “perchè” quanto nel credere di essere giunti alla risposta definitiva – osservò Alfred come parlando a se stesso. "

― Margaret Weis , Dragon Wing (The Death Gate Cycle, #1)