92 Quotes by Peter V. Brett

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

They follow their hearts. I know it sounds like madness, Arlen, but deep down, men want to fight, like they did in tales of old. They want to protect their women and children as men should. But they can’t, because the great wards are lost, so they knot themselves like caged hares, sitting terrified through the night. But sometimes, especially when you see loved ones die, the tension breaks you and you just snap.

Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

The Creator did not give humans wards. Humans created them out of unified need. Alone, the symbols had no power. It was the resolve of their makers, the hope and prayers of the masses huddling behind them.

There’s other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It’s not brave to fight a battle you can’t win.

Every child had heard the proverb in the Canon that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Hurting with words is easy,” Mairy replied, echoing Leesha’s earlier statement, “it’s healing with them what’s hard.