"My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancerâ€•"

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Source : Raymond E. Feist (1990). “Prince of the Blood”, Spectra

Raymond E. Feist

#Mother Quotes #Uncles Quotes #Assassins Quotes

“I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. Its something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!”
“Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.”
“My life closed twice before its close”
“If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.”
“Everything you declare with your lips will be tested in your life.”
“Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss or the fierce individuality of passion with the dulling universal certainty of platitude.”
“There is no graceful way to carry hatred.”

Source : Alice Walker (2013). “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems”, p.12, New World Library
“I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.”

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