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"To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart."
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"Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe."
Power
"I froze, shocked. (And don't try to claim that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)"
Violence
"I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking."Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly."
Friendship
"Onward, then! To glory and some such nonsense."
Adventure
"People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort."
Humor
"Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?"
Freedom
"To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way."
Beauty
"I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Power
"Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people."
Writing
"...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become...."
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"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
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"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."
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Personal Development
"Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands."
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"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"
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Personal Development
"It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl."
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Personal Development
"I do feel that I've managed to make something I could maybe call my world, over time, ittle by little. And when I'm inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I'm a weak person, that I bruise easily, don't you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It's like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere."
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"It seems my heart is made of tissue paper, I wish the world would handle it more delicately."
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"Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that's the case, we may choose not to risk."
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"I want you to be weak. As weak as I am."
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"To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart."
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Personal Development
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