“And that just makes it all the harder, doesn’t it? Not being special. Not having that funny mark or that omen at your birth. Just an ordinary person asked to step up to do the extraordinary.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“There is much running of vomit and faeces on board this ship. Please stop adding to it.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“I was very young when I joined. I’d grown up sheltered – and a touch spoiled. Like anyone, I suppose.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“for all went to dark then and he allowed himself release without regret, without anger, without expectation of anything.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“And that just makes it all the harder, doesn’t it? Not being special. Not having that funny mark or that omen at your birth.… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake And behold there the constellations Of both hemispheres at once? -Love Songs of the Cinnamon Wastes” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share
“Yes. It is your turn – as it is everyone’s at some time. The test is in our response.” — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“Who are you,’ it boomed, ‘to light a fire here in the depths of Himatan?’ [...] ‘Someone who would dare to do so,’ Pon-lor… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share
“Xethel laughed again, though rather nervously this time. ‘Then I name you Amman-an-ash. The One Who Would Know Everything.’ She nodded in Dancer’s direction.… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
“We do not follow the philosophy of purity versus pollution. That is a false choice, a false dichotomy. The truth is, nothing is “pure”.… — Ian C. Esslemont Copy Share Image
![“Who are you,’ it boomed, ‘to light a fire here in the depths of Himatan?’ [...] ‘Someone who would dare to do so,’ Pon-lor shouted down. ‘Think you on that.” quote by Ian C. Esslemont](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c73/ian-c-esslemont-23897_fire_who-are-you-it-boomed-to-light-a-fire-he_1220924.jpg)
