I don't write fantasy. I write stories that have important human themes. They have elements of romance, history, adventure, mystery and philosophy. Most fantasy is one-dimensional. It's either about magic or a world-building. I don't do either.
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Terry Goodkind
There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
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Daniel Abraham
The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters.
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Seanan McGuire
Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back.
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Seanan McGuire
Follow the rules whenever possible. That makes it a lot more surprising when you break them.
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Mira Grant
Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving
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Mira Grant
This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to provide armament against a world too full of cruelties to be defeated with simple falsehoods... It seems to me we owe the world--more, we owe ourselves--the exchange of comfort for the chance that maybe the truth can do what people always say it can. The truth may, given the opportunity, set us free.
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Mira Grant
Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream
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David Gemmell
I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the father of regret and anguish and pain
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David Gemmell
We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences
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David Gemmell
Love is a mystery. We embrace it where we can. Mostly we do not choose whom we love. It just happens. A voice speaks to us, in ways the ears cannot hear. We recognize a beauty the eye does not see. We experience a change in our hearts that no voice can describe.
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David Gemmell
Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil
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David Gemmell
Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.
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Jacqueline Carey
Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.
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Robin Hobb
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