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Fear and pain can only touch you if you let them.Peter V. Brett
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Embrace the pain, Sharum.Peter V. Brett
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To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak.Peter V. Brett
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Can’t trust no one else to do what you won’t do for yourself.Peter V. Brett
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All men are brothers in the night.Peter V. Brett
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He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.Peter V. Brett
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Why are you doing this?” Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mother’s, but every word clear. “My mother would not be so kind to one who tried to poison her.”“ Nor would mine, but we are not our mothers, Amanvah, ” Leesha said.Peter V. Brett
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How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?”“ The Creator didn’t make love conditional, ” Jona said. “Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.Peter V. Brett
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Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school.Peter V. Brett
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My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves.” “Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away, ” Abban replied.Peter V. Brett
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Weakness shown is worse than weakness felt.Peter V. Brett
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Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.Peter V. Brett
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I have rare moments of competence.Peter V. Brett