Trudi Canavan Quotes
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.
What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.
There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend
Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.
Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of madness.
The Magicians Apprentice was about someone from the low end of society manifesting magical power and how that completely messes up the balance of the whole system.
It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second. Sonea: I love you too.
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.
Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams
How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?
Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second.Sonea: I love you too.