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A book lives a new life every time it is read.

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If we stop helping people because we’re afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I’ll stop them.

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I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experience with social interaction. I mixed with ordinar...more

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If you want to know a man, dig in his firepit...Basically, it meant that you could judge a lot about a man's life by what he thew away - or by what he...more

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You could not stop times from changing, his mother said, no more than you could stop the surf from rolling.

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I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and abs...more

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The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's how the...more

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The rest of the time, I don't do so much thinkin'. 'Cuz if I did, I'd go running back to where things is simple. You see?

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Marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

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There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then find yourself in a co...more

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There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives.""And what of those who protect and defend? Those who...more

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Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very t...more

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That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

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Lightsong met the man's eyes, then smiled broadly, looking down at the God King. "My life to yours," Lifesong said. "My breath become yours.

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My life to yours. My breath beecome yours.