My reading has slackened off to a pathetic amount this year. Part of that was with having a monologue to memorize, and also getting so busy with trips and events and having a life in general.
This year I was gifted with the first two books in the highly acclaimed (and much recommended) Wheel of Time series, which is fantasy. I finally finished the prologue and just began Book 1 the other night. Here are the best lines from New Spring.
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Live with what you cannot change, she told herself sourly.
When a man believes he may die, he wants to leave something of himself behind. When a woman believes her man may die, she wants that part of him desperately. The result is a great many babies born during wars. It's illogical, given the hardship that comes if the man does die, or the woman, but the human heart is seldom logical.
Paltry irritations sometimes had a way of festering into lifelong antagonisms.
Some wars could not be won, yet they still must be fought.
...power often grew from others deciding that you already had power...
The sure dangers were real enough without inventing more.
A man's past belonged to himself and the people who had lived it with him.
He was swimming in a sea of other people's expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.
Sometimes, you had to gamble.
...all her calm was outward show, but she clung to it tightly.
People had a way of folding what they saw into what they knew and what they wanted to believe.
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Currently I still prefer Game of Thrones but I am being told that's just because I read Game of Thrones first. We shall see...!
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