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    A fool may scrawl on a slate and if no one has the wit to wipe it clean for a thousand years, the scrawl becomes the wisdom of ages.

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    All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

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    And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.

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    As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find that your mother cannot keep you safe, that your tutor makes a mistake, that the wrong path must be taken because the grown-ups lack the strength to take the right one...each of those moments is the theft of your childhood, each of them a blow that kills some part of the child you were, leaving another part of the man exposed, a new creature, tougher but tempered with bitterness and disappointment.

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    A strange thing — nails will hold a building together, but there's nothing better for taking a man apart.

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    Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

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    Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

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    Do you know why the leaves change colour?... Before a tree sheds a leaf it pumps it full of all the poison it can't rid itself of otherwise. That red there--that's a man's skin blotching with burst veins after an assassin spikes his last meal with roto-weed. The poison spreading through him before he dies.

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    Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.

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    Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

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    For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I'd not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.

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    Hate will keep you alive where love fails

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    Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

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    If you must run, have something to run toward, so it feels less like cowardice.

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    I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

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    I maintain a balanced view of the world, but that balance is always in my favour.

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    In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

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    I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

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    I think you need to have lived more to truly know a man's heart. You need to have made more transactions in life to know the worth of the coin you spend so freely

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    It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

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    It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

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    I've always felt that the placement of a man's testicles is an eloquent argument against intelligent design.

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    Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

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    Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

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    Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.

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    Men think if they're getting laid, everything is fine. Women think if they feel good, everything is fine. Neither turns out to be a very good indicator.

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    Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?

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    Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

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    No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

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    Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

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    Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

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    Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.

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    Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.

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    Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

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    Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

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    There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

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    There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.

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    There's a road to hell that is paved with good intentions but it's a long route. The quicker path is paved with the kind of ignorance that clever men who just don't want to know are best at.

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    There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.

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    We can't be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

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    When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

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    You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.

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    You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

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    You got responsibilities when you’re a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who’re you going to lead?

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    You're a Good Little Slave

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    You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

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    A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.

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    All the best secrets are told at night.

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    And why did they choose to follow me? Why did you?" I asked.... "I follow you because I'm tired of war. I would see it stopped. One empire. One law. It doesn't matter so much how or who, just being united would stop the madness," Makin said. "Heh, I can feel the loyalty!" I pushed up and stood, stretching. "Wouldn't the Prince of Arrow make a better emperor?" "I don't think he'll win," said Makin.

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    A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.