Quotes by Janny Wurts

About Janny Wurts:

Janny Wurts is an American fantasy novelist and illustrator. She has written several series, including the Wars of Light and Shadow, The Cycle of Fire trilogy, several stand-alone novels, a short story collection and the internationally best selling Empire Trilogy that she co-authored with Raymond E. Feist. She often illustrates her own work.
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Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

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An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

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Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

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You can't let your past write the future

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How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

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There's a choice?" "Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.

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Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.

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You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.

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Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.

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Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

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You cannot trust yourself,’ she agreed, bed-rock calm. ‘Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.

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This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.

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Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.

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There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

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Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned. They exist, beyond price, and we cannot hope to match up to them.

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But hope always kindles through striving.

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There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written.

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Loyalty," he stated, ineffably gentle. "A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

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You don’t have to like a man to respect him.

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But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!

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Author Bio

  • NameJanny Wurts
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornDecember 10, 1953
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Novelist
  • WorksEmpire Trilogy