25 Quotes & Sayings By Janny Wurts

Born in Germany, Janny Wurts was raised in Canada and the United States, and now lives in England. She was educated at Oxford University and Harvard, where she received her doctorate. Her first novel, Betrayal at Krondor, was an international bestseller. Her most recent book is The Death of the Necromancer (2002) Read more

An act made in fear is not the same thing...
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An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity. Janny Wurts
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Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged. Janny Wurts
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Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy. Janny Wurts
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You can't let your past write the future Janny Wurts
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The rebuke came, keen-edged. ‘Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he’s about. Janny Wurts
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You cannot trust yourself, ’ she agreed, bed-rock calm. ‘Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me. Janny Wurts
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This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight. Janny Wurts
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You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative. Janny Wurts
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It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat. Janny Wurts
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Hate has no ears. Janny Wurts
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How often ignorance stings less than knowledge. Janny Wurts
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What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options? Janny Wurts
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There's a choice?"" Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things. Janny Wurts
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A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection. Janny Wurts
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You don’t have to like a man to respect him. Janny Wurts
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Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for. Janny Wurts
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How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless? Janny Wurts
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Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well. Janny Wurts
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Loyalty, " he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation. Janny Wurts
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An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force. Janny Wurts
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Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances. Janny Wurts
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Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence. Janny Wurts
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You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names. Janny Wurts
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There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving. Janny Wurts