The Way of Kings - Highlights

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• expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.

• I don’t think I could live with myself if I didn’t at least try to persuade her.

• Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.

• A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”

• “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”

• People see in stories what they’re looking for

• We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us. Our callused feet, our backs strong from carrying the weight of our travels, our eyes open with the fresh delight of experiences lived.

• ‘In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

• Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

• others were inspired when their leader looked the part

• It doesn’t matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else.

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