K.J. Parker Quotes

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• That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much…
• Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy…
• The easiest way to do anything is properly.
• Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
• Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
• There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
• War is an admission of failure
• If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?
• Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.
• A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be…
• He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all…

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