Quoting Fantasy

The best quotes I've ever found have all resided in a fantasy novel. I feel greedy finding all of these gems and not sharing!

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Hiatus Warning!

Sorry everyone, but I must take a short break on quoting while I wait for my laptop to get shipped here! 

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Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind

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We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.

Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind

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If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

Incarceron - Catherine Fisher

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I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

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Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

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All my years to this moment All my roads to this wall. All my words to this silence All my pride to this fall.

Incarceron - Catherine Fisher

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I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

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“You're a monster." "Thanks. Does that mean I get a raise?" "Just a medal.The budget isn't inexhaustible.”

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

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She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence and courage to her wit, and the special smile she gave only to him. He would slay a dragon, if there were such a thing, just to see that smile. He knew he would never want anyone else for as long as he lived. He would rather spend the rest of his life alone than with someone else. There could be no one else.

Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind

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Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

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Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know.

Incarceron - Catherine Fisher

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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

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If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

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Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

Wizard's First Rule - Terry Goodkind

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That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

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The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card