The Last Mortal Bond
Brian Staveley
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Pain is suffering because we want to be free of it, and pleasure is suffering because we fear to lose it. Fools search for freedom, but there is no freedom. There is only the embrace.”
“It was strange the way that people venerated truth. Everyone seemed to strive for it, as though it were some unalloyed good, a perfect gem of glittering rectitude. Women and men might disagree about its definition, but priests and prostitutes, mothers and monks all mouthed the word with respect, even reverence. No one seemed to realize how stooped the truth could be, how twisted and how ugly.”
“Hope, as usual, proved to be a miserable bitch.”
“The mind is a flame. Blow it out, or it will blind you.”
“If the people are foolish, he said, it is because their leader has failed them.”
“some truths were jagged as a rusty blade, horrible, serrated, irremovable, lodged forever in the insubstantial substance of the soul.”
“The more you try to see, the less you will notice.”
“Never speak to a crowd. Her father’s words, measured and steady. Especially not a crowd of thousands. Always speak to a single person.”
“Live now. The future is a dream. Triste”
“sometimes goodness and nobility aren’t enough. Sometimes, when the monsters come, you need a dark, monstrous thing to pit against them.”
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