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Ship of Destiny

There are 19 quotes listed in the Ship of Destiny category:

He sensed her disgust that there was no wide, flat space prepared for a dragon to land. What sort of a city was this?
narrator

No, no, never mind the mud on your shoes. If enough people track dirt in, someone will start tracking it out.
Ekke

He had hoped it would goad Brashen into fury. Anger he could deal with better than this deep melancholy. To deal with anger, all you had to do was shout back louder than your opponent. Instead, he felt himself the horrible lurch of Brashen's heart.
Paragon

She snorted to herself. Lords of the Three Realms. Rulers of Earth, Sea and Sky, yet master of none of them.
narrator

A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.
Ekke

It is like being in a silver dream on a magic ship.
Amber

Some friendships go deeper than madness or common sense.
Brashen

Vivacia didn't answer her question. Her green eyes were deep as the ocean as they met Etta's gaze. The inevitability of the ocean was in her look.
narrator

When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things. When the weight of the world is behind them, the push of events and time itself will align to make incredible things happen.
Amber

There is no such thing as extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny. So say the followers of Sa.
Kennit´s charm

Don't go mooning after the stars, when the wide sea is all around you. It's a sky of its own, you know.
Ophelia

Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself.
narrator

In politics, appearance matters far more than truth.
Serilla

Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
Kennit's charm

Never wait for a male on any such decision. You are the queen. You decide. Males are not made for such decisions. I have seen it time and time again. They would have you wait for days of sunshine and wealth and plenty. Yet to a male, enough is never sufficient, and plenty never reached. A queen knows that when times are hardest and game most scarce, that is when one must care most about the continuance of the race. Some things are not for the males to decide.
Bolt

She flew toward the city. The closer she came, the more obvious became its death. The road was not only completely devoid of the lively traffic it had once sustained; at one point, a landslide had sheared the road away entirely. The memory stone still recalled blackly that it had been told to be a road. She could sense the trapped memories of the merchants and soldiers and nomadic traders who had once traversed it still humming in the stone. Grass and moss had not overcome it. The road still shone, black, straight and level as it made its businesslike way to the city. The road still recalled itself as a highway, but no one else in the world did.
narrator

Don't walk away, you fool. Never turn your back on a dragon. If you do, she will think you are so stupid that you deserve destruction.
Kennit's charm

There are dragons and dragons. This one would just as soon not spend eternity tied to a heap of bones. Turn back. Defy her. Challenge her.
Kennit's charm

I am simply saying that you should not lock your dreams onto a child or a man. Who loves you or who you love is not as significant as who you are. Too many folk, women and men, love the person they wish to be, as if by loving that person, or being loved by that person, they could attain the importance they long for.
Wintrow