Shards of a Broken Crown
Raymond E. Feist
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.”
“Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.”
“I let my anger consume me.” “It’s understandable,” she said. “It may be understandable,” replied Pug, “but it is no more forgivable for being understandable.”
“people who took things for granted in these situations were called corpses.”
“You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never be your father, but nature didn't intend for you to be either of those men, no matter how worthy they were. You must become the best man you are capable of.”
“There are cities that have no ... I don't know what to call it, an identity perhaps. A sense of being someplace different. Lots of those in the Empire. Very old cities with lots of history, but one day is much like the next.”
“The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by a unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back, Or you can let it go and move forward”
“It’s tempting to think of yourself as powerful when those around you are far less so, but compared to the simple fact of existence, to the power of life and how it hangs on, we are nothing.”
“History is written by victors,” said Duko. “But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.”
“Besides, it seems to mee that spreading the doctrine of doing good can harm no one.' Nakor shook his head. 'Would that it were true. Men have been put to death for preaching good.”
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