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50 quotes
American fantasy writer
“I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.”
"Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times."
on Wisdom
"Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us."
on Art
"...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth."
on Truth
"I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself."
on Life
"But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true."
"So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it."
on Love
"If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake."
on Learning
"If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it."
on Writing
"When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it."
"Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear."
on Fear
"I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die."
"Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God."
"Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse."
"Metal rusts, music lasts forever."
"It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive."
on Resilience
"Wrong things never lead to success. If a man acts wrongly and succeeds, that is not the way. Without the Lethani there is no true success."
on Success
"I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it."
"Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself"
"There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true."
"I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear."
