Trudi Canavan Quotes

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• It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.
• Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would…
• Happy endings are a luxury of fiction
• It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what…
• Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second. Sonea: I love you too.
• Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys,…
• There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend
• So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked. She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?' 'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the…
• What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary…
• How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?
• Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
• He had given her too much. He had given her everything.
• Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.
• Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.
• Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be…
• Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.” Dannyl straightened in protest.…
• Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
• Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.
• If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.
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Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to…

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