Quotes from Raymond E. Feist

It is the single blackest shame in the memory of our race that one segment of our people utterly destroyed another. 'But

People most often don't see what is right before them.

As they walked he glanced sideways and at last asked, You are the one they call Pug? If Pug hadn't already been surprised by what they had encountered, he was now openly taken aback. Yes, he said. I'd thought you'd be taller, mused the Pantathian.

Your human gods love to present you with such riddles and challenges, or so it has seemed to me for most of my life... You often seem to prefer difficult choices when simple alternatives are available; it is a constant source of amazement to my kind.

The ways of the heart are complex." He looked out at the ocean again. "The waves churn and break upon the rocks, Talon. So do human feelings. Passion can be a man's undoing. With passion must come wisdom; otherwise, your enemies have a weapon to use against you.

In an infinite universe, all things are not only possible but, no matter how improbable, certain to exist somewhere at some time.

When you lose everything,' Nathan had said, 'you've nothing left to lose. You've got two choices then: either kill yourself or start building a new life. When I started this new life, without my family, I decided the only sensible thing in it was to live for the small rewards: a job well done, a beautiful sunrise, the sound of children laughing at play, a good cup of wine. Makes it easy to deal with the harsher side of life.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history." Then

Remember this: of all the commodities men trade in, information is the most valuable by far.

A hunt leader could not show fear, or let it linger in his stomach, for others would sense it soon enough, taste that fear and become possessed by it. They would hesitate when an order was given, and uncertainty would claim their life as readily as the blade of the enemy.

What is life for?' he asked rhetorically. 'It's a way to evolve thought. And what is thought for? It's a way to be aware, a stage between the physical and the spiritual. And time? it's a good way to keep things separated.

Well, he thought, dwelling on past failures once you'd learned all there was to learn was just heaping futility on failure.

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

Life has shown me all too often it's a fragile gift. Remember, no one gets out of life alive.

I know, when we are young we cannot entertain the idea another's feelings can be as deep as our own. Our love is so much loftier, our pain so much more intense.

Nicholas stopped her again. "So you tried to kill her?" "Only a little. I would have stopped before she was completely dead.

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

It's often said we take offense most in what we see of ourselves in others.

Some love comes like a wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness.

Most of us move through life with little chance to learn much about ourselves. We know some things we like and some things we dislike, we have a few ideas about what makes us happy, and we die in ignorance regarding anything profound within ourselves.

You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.

Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.

Then the universe rocks. The very fabric of reality is rent.

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.