Hilari Bell Quotes

• It isn't a matter of how long, or even how much you know. It's a way of looking at things, how much you see and how you think. I suppose it's, well, perspective. . . When you start seein' five sides to a four-sided object, that's when you get the gray robe.

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  Thinking, Long, Perspective

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• Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi

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  Today, Miles, Salute

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• Coordinating the retreat was important too, so important that Jiaan had assigned Aram as Fasal's assistant, to be sure he didn't overlook anything important. Like the fact that they were supposed to retreat.

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  Important, Assistants, Retreat

  Hilari Bell (2008). “Forging the Sword”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• So truth created the ultimate lie. Was this what the world was like for wizards? This thorny, gray tangle where right and wrong were so mixed there was no telling them apart?

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  Lying, Wizards, World

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• I never thought honor would feel like betrayal.

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  Betrayal, Honor, Feels

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• Fisk would take care of it.

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  Care, Take Care

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• Man must look after man sicne no god watches out for us.

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  Men, Watches, Looks

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• Did the priest you mentioned tell you about them? Or did he send you out to blunder along on your own?They're an odd lot. Half of them are soldiers, or priests in disgui- Ah.Is your priest with them?" "No!" He snapped. Ping. He jumped. He'd forgotten the bell. "I mean, I don't know". Ping. "There is no particular priest."Ping. He bit his lip and fell silent.

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  Mean, Soldier, Half

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• The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for. Safer than you'll be if you don't answer my questions." Ping. He managed not to laugh, but it looked like a hard fight. "Dung," Makenna muttered. the knight's expression changed to startled disapproval. A prig, as he? Maybe she could use that. "I said you should let me handle this," Cogswhallop told her. "I'd have meant it.

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  Laughter, Eye, Fighting

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• Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runes. "Are you sure this'll work, gen'ral?" "Of course I'm sure-" Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet.

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  Rooms, Faces, Notes

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• As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his unprotected leg and he yelped and clutched it. That was a mistake. The second barrage was entirely directed at his legs.

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  Mistake, Darkness, Legs

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• I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

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  Hands, Iron, Giving

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• In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.

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  Attitude, Character, Way

  Hilari Bell (2009). “Crown of Earth”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.

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  Fighting, Army, Years

  Hilari Bell (2008). “Forging the Sword”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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