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"You can win the victories you seek, Jorg. But only if you find better reasons to want them."
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"When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on."

"Things are always given to us when we need them (Acheron)." "That's so not true," Wulf said. "Actually it is. You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make ityours (Acheron)."

"There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable."

"If you have strength, why won't you work?"

"There is no harm in trying... Trying improves your skills, enhances your stamina and encourages you to excel. Give it a try... Even in trying moments, keep trying. You will never regret it!"

"A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."

"You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there."

"Your true freedom is making your own decisions."

"Stay strong. Focus on the ultimate goal."

"For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted."
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"We die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars."

"When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. You can only win the game when you understand that it IS a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him loose them all."

"The road forgets. Make your life a journey, keep moving toward what you want, leave behind anything that's too heavy to carry."

"Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means."

"The way I'd put it, said Makin, 'is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace."

"There's a problem with continually stamping down on the least sensible instincts that drive men to recklessly endanger themselves. Even the most reasonable and level-headed of us have only limited space to store such unwanted emotion. You keep putting the stuff away, shoving it to the back of your mind but like an over-full cupboard there comes a point where you try to cram one more thing into it and all of a sudden something snaps, the catch gives, the door bursts open and everything inside spills out on top of you."

"At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn't all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins."

"There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave."
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