Король Терний

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Его жизненно важные органы, похоже, уже давно не были для него жизненно важными.

Trust is a fine thing, but try not to build plans upon it.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

Brother Row you can trust. Trust him to lie, trust him to cheat, perhaps to betray. Most of all trust him to be true to what he is, a weasel, a killer in the dark, handy in the fight. Trust in all that and he will not disappoint.

We`re built of contradictions, all of us. It`s those opposing forces that give us strength, like an arch, each block pressing the next. Give me a man whose parts are all aligned in agreement and I`ll show you madness. We walk a narrow path, insanity to each side. A man without contradiction to balance him will soon veer off.

Roma hated nothing like it hated invention. A priest might order you burned for making free with some enchantment, but find the trick of a better steel, or rediscover some alchemy of the Builders, and they would have an expert spend all week killing you.

There`s something about a fight that makes you forget your troubles. Mainly it`s that all your troubles are suddenly very small in the face of the new problems swinging yoru way with sharp edges on them.

These things seem terribly important when you`re young. Matters of the heart and groin. They fill your world at eighteen. But believe me. When you`re the wrong side of forty-five and past is a bright haze... they`re more important still.