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No. This is right. I feel it. I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves.
Fitz in Assassin's Quest
A burden shared not only can lighten it; it can form a bond between those who share it. So that no one is left to bear it alone.
The Fool in The Golden Fool
To recognize you are the source of your own loneliness is not a cure for it. But it is a step towards seeing that it is not inevitable, and that such a choice is not irrevocable.
Narrator in The Golden Fool
You can fetch me sixteen years!
Patience in Fool's Fate
Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.
Wolves have no kings.
narrator in Royal Assassin
And when a warrior is injured, or when he sees his brother fall, dying, he cannot *then* decide that the price is too high to pay. Each of them must go into this battle thinking that if he must die for us to win it, then he will.
Soldierīs Boy in Renegade's Magic
You are to be a soldier, Nevare. A soldier does not retreat from what he imagines might be an enemy.
Lord Keft Burvelle of the East in Renegade's Magic
How different would our perception of reality be if, instead, we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
Narrator in Shaman's Crossing
There had been a few occasions when words had so reached into him and settled their truth in him like roots in rich earth. Some of the very best teachers at the monastery could wake this awe in him, when they spoke in simple words a truth that had swum unvoiced inside him.
narrator in Ship of Magic
What do who call me when?
The Fool in Fool's Errand
Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.
narrator in The Golden Fool
Beloved, I have missed your company.
Fitz in The Golden Fool
Did you ever truly believe I might seek from you something that you did not share my desire for? Well do I know how distasteful you would find that. Well do I know that seeking that from you would irreparably damage all else that we have shared. So I have always avoided this very discussion that you have forced upon our friendship.
The Fool in The Golden Fool
I set no boundaries on my love. None at all. Do you understand me?
The Fool in The Golden Fool
Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change.
The Fool in Fool's Fate