The God King’s superiority was arbitrary, much like Lightsong’s divinity – both part of a grand game of make-believe. But he’d found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people’s lives.
This isn’t your prison. This is mine.
Sometimes, when you stepped in something foul, the only thing to do was stop walking and make the effort to clean it off.
When you’ve got an arrow stuck in you, it’s sometimes best to just yank it out in one pull.
She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.
Great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.
It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.
How quickly we come around,′ Sazed whispered. ‘It wasn’t long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.
Be slow to trust a man with clothing that was too new. You didn’t get to wear new, clean clothing by doing honest work.
You could even scan to the end and read the last page. Know that by doing so, however, you would violate every holy and honorable story-telling principle known to man, thereby throwing the universe into chaos and causing grief to untold millions.
In her business, there were many who laughed at honest men, calling them easy pickings. That was a fallacy. Being honest did not make one naive. A dishonest fool and an honest fool were equally easy to scam; you just went about it in different ways. However, a man who was honest and clever was always, always more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever.
It’s nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option,” Raoden said dryly.
Hello?” M-Bot said. “Spensa? Are you dead?” “Maybe.” “Oooh. Like the cat!
I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.
Wait,” Dion said. “You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?” “I use the cards dealt to me.
When Simol was informed of the arrival of the Edgedancers, a concealed consternation and terror, as is common in such cases, fell upon him; although they were not the most demanding of orders, their graceful, limber movements hid a deadliness that was, by this time, quite renowned; also, they were the most articulate and refined of the Radiants.
Everything costs money,” Ham said. “But, what is money? A physical representation of the abstract concept of effort.
There will be people like this in any culture, for every society is made of individuals. You must learn this. Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.
Time, the Stormfather said. Which, though dross to him, is the most valuable thing a man can have.
You’re making me get used to sleeping at night,” she said. “Plus, I don’t sleep in my clothing anymore.” “If you did, it would make things a little awkward.” “Yes,” she said, “but what if we get attacked during the night? I’d have to fight them naked.” “I wouldn’t mind watching that.” She.