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Category: Peter V. Brett

My breakthrough was when I began to write during my commute, at first taking notes on my Palm Pilot, and then moving on to writing full prose on the tiny QWERTY keyboard of my iPaq smartphone. I got so fast that I was averaging 400 words during the 35 minutes or so I spent on the subway each way, or 800 words round trip.

Writing, Words, Moving

How did you deal with it? How do you stop loving someone?”“The Creator didn’t make love conditional,” Jona said. “Love is what makes us human. What separates us from the corelings. There is value in it, even when it is not requited.

conditional, corelings, creator, human, love, value

Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

be-yourself, confidence, individuality

Why are you doing this?” Amanvah whispered, her accent thick like her mother’s, but every word clear. “My mother would not be so kind to one who tried to poison her.”“Nor would mine, but we are not our mothers, Amanvah,” Leesha said.

choice, forgivingness, freedom-of-choice, kindness

I have rare moments of competence.

competence, moments

Letting your guard down, even for a moment, invites death.

death, down, even, guard, invites, moment

Weakness shown is worse than weakness felt.

felt, shown, weakness, worse

I’m not going to hide away and leave my friends to the corelings!” she shouted. “We’ll find a way to ward the Holy House, and make our stand here. Together! And if demons should dare come and try to take my children, I have secrets of fire that will burn them from this wor

demons, fighting, mothering, protectiveness

My father said the weakest camel draws the wolves.” “Mine told me to hide until the wolves go away,” Abban replied.

abban, camel, father, go-away, hide, weakest, wolves

Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school.

folk, learn, lessons, school, skip

He feared no challenger face-to-face, but war was deception, as Khevat had taught him, and not all men fought their enemies with spear and fist.

challenger, deception, enemies, face-to-face, feared, fist, fought, khevat, men, spear, taught, war

All men are brothers in the night.

all, brothers, men, night