“Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.” KindMayFaultsGreedSomedayImpatienceUndone Author:Isobelle Carmody
“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.” PeopleKnowsKindSometimesWaitingWorryLike YouOne DayHuntsWaiting For You Book:Obernewtyn: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book One Source: Obernewtyn: Obernewtyn Chronicles: Book One
“The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.” WorldTryingKindDreamPurposeLove IsVisionMagicComfortShapesAnd LoveOur ThoughtsSweetnessOur DreamsDreams And Love Author:Isobelle Carmody
“Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.” PeopleWritingKindMayLongReasonFactsStoriesFormLosesFictionWonderfulReaderComfortableSittingHarderWitnessSettlingRejectsShort StoryLosing YourselfStoolsImmersion Book:The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One) Source: The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)
“My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said” PeopleFirstsKindLittlesSaidWould BeOrderThreeHalfResponsibilityLeaderTroubleDangerBrotherAuthorityFollowersFavouriteTolerateMentorStrifeDestinedLittle Sister Author:Isobelle Carmody
