Quotes from book

Inheritance

“I don’t know how else to teach you what you need to learn except by showing you your mistakes over and over again until you stop making them.”

“Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it, the more it gnawed away at who he was.”

“You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.”

““I am the victor. In the end nothing else matters.’”

“War was a catalog of madness.”

“I am not ready. But when will we ever be ready?”

“Then I guess we have no choice but to go forward. When have we ever had any choice but to go forward?”

“I am not who I was, but I know who I am.”

“You of all people should know that everything in this world must be paid for, whether in gold, time, or blood.”

“I cannot forgive, but I understand.”

“But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness…”

“You must learn to see what you are looking at.”

“Change is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.”

“It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.”

“Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.”

“Let go of your worries and focus
only on the task at hand. The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.
I know,"--Glaedr”

“Even the smallest of the starlings' concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.”

“Why?' - Nasuada
'You know why' - Murtagh”

“Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.”