Leafy Quotes

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The newest book quotes in the Leafy Quotes collection — passages readers have just added, each with its author, book and the page it came from.

  1. In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

  2. One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

  3. A knight's a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady's favors, they're silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword's prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead.

  4. Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

  5. What we want is not always what we get.

  6. She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.

  7. It seems to me that a queen who trusts no one is as foolish as a queen who trusts everyone.

  8. I never dreamed how quick the sweet would turn to sour.

  9. All she felt was pity, and pity was death to desire.

  10. In times like these, it is better to be insignificant

  11. Somehow the singing made the miles seem shorter.

  12. It was easy to lose your way beyond the Wall. Jon did not know that he could tell honor from shame anymore, or right from wrong.