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Robert Fanney quotes
Leowin: Don’t worry Luthiel. ‘Truth’s existence never depended upon belief.
— Robert Fanney
May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns… and may the moonshadow never fall on you…
— Robert Fanney
Without realizing what she was doing and more on an impulse than anything else, she leaned forward and kissed him. It was a simple, yet firm kiss and she pulled back after only a moment. But it sent a thrill through her. He leaned down for another. But she put her finger on his lips to stop him. “That was my reward to you, ” she said as they danced. “Don’t squander it.” “Reward? he asked still seeming both surprised and delighted at this unexpected attention. “What for?” “Why for living, Vaelros. And for doing so much else to help me. I will have you rewarded in state as well. But that was just from me.” She saw Vaelros flush and she gave him a brilliant smile. “You don’t like my reward?” she asked. “I do!” he replied. “I want only to learn how to earn more.” The music was fading. The song was ending. Luthiel stepped back and let her hands drop. “A mysterious thing, my heart, ” she said.
— Robert Fanney
Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.’ Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. ‘Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms.
— Robert Fanney
Zalos: ‘The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.
— Robert Fanney, The War of Mists
Mithorden said it well, ” she said finally. “It’s worshipping death. They say they follow light. But, in the end, they’re really following desolation, division, the end of things. You should hear their prophecies — war, destruction, only special chosen people are spared.” She felt sad and angry. Worse, she wondered to what ends people who believed these things would go to assert their views.
— Robert Fanney
I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.
— Robert Fanney, The War of Mists
If Christ taught us anything it is this — not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.
— Robert Fanney
Vanye: You’re asking me to kill you.Luthiel: I’m asking you to save her.
— Robert Fanney
If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.
— Robert Fanney, The War of Mists
Writers shouldn’t fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence — it is the greatest killer of writers. So if you hate a book and want to hurt it — don’t talk about it. And if you hate my books — please, for God’s sake, shout it from the hills!
— Robert Fanney
It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It’s like an engine without fuel — can’t get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top — doesn’t guide anyone in to home or safe harbor.
— Robert Fanney
In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.
— Robert Fanney
Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.
— Robert Fanney
Wars are won in the will.
— Robert Fanney
Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off — dancing in the hot air.
— Robert Fanney
Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself among them. I am older than most sorcerers so what I know may, indeed, be close to the truth. Magic, wyrd, words, dreams, they all come from the spirit. Within them lie both power and peril. For to misuse any is to warp your sense of self. To lie in words, or in magic, or in dreams — that is how you become lost. The lights you see, they were lost long before they came to the Vale.
— Robert Fanney
We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.
— Robert Fanney
Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real.
— Robert Fanney
A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter’s tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano’sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still…
— Robert Fanney
You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire threat. Yet, in the face of evil, to sit silent is an even greater evil. Complacency is ever the enabler of darkest deeds;
— Robert Fanney
How can I judge?” she said at last. “To me, he is a hero. To the world a monster.” She let her head fall into her arms and started crying quietly. “I miss him! Curse him! I miss him!”Mithorden put a hand on her shoulder and let her cry for a few minutes. A sad smile slowly spread across his face. “I’m glad you can forgive him, ” he said at last.Luthiel lifted her head. “How do you know?”Because you miss him.
— Robert Fanney
Rise, Luthiel, in the name of love you came and in the name of love I crown you!
— Robert Fanney
It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.
— Robert Fanney
In the depth a light will grow, A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in the sky, That circle ’round a gleaming eye, Turning darkness all away, Even depths will know their day, For every shadow has its end, In light!Life will return again!
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To be me is to be different…
— Robert Fanney, Dreams of the Ringed Vale
Mithorden: ‘We become what we do, Zalos.
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Mithorden: ‘He was brilliant, yes, but ready to laugh at himself when he made mistakes. You may not believe it, but he made mistakes often.’Luthiel: ‘Why?’ She choked around her tears.Mithorden: ‘Because he tried to do great things. Anyone can succeed at easy things. But the things Valkire tried were very difficult. He wanted to make things better for people of all races — for he saw the good in them.
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A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.
— Robert Fanney
I’d say we’re all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought.
— Robert Fanney
Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.
— Robert Fanney
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