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Fall of Kings

David Gemmell

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.”

“She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.”

“Hate is the father of all evil.”

“I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf”

“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”

“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”

“... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods”

“We ought to call it something,’ said Banokles thoughtfully. ‘We can’t just keep calling it “that big bastard horse”. It ought to have a name.’ ‘What do you suggest?’ - ‘Arse Face.”

“It is said that the gates of paradise can only be opened by the tears of those left behind. I do not know whether that be true. It should be, I think.”

“We are fighting the greatest war the world has ever seen, and our likely future is death and ruins, and you are thinking about a women you love, instead of making battle plans. If this is what love can do to a man, perhaps you were better off without it. He smiled to himself. I do not believe that, he thought.”

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Book Keywords:

trust, devotion, friendship, death, love, self-reliance, instinct, truth, life, destiny, decision-making, hatred, age, hate, vengeance, treachery, evil, revenge

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