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Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

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Trudi Canavan
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 23
Graphic Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
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Tayend nodded. “I know it won’t. I admit I was worried about you, but you are still your old self, underneath.” Dannyl straightened in protest. “Underneath what?” The Elyne stood up, waving one hand in Dannyl’s direction. “All…that.” “I’m reeling at your descriptive clarity,” Dannyl told him.
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Nodding, Cery strode to the door and stepped through. Though the burly guards eyes him suspiciously, Cery smiled back. Never make enemies of someone's lackeys, his father had taught him. Better still, make them like you a lot.
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I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.
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Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second. Sonea: I love you too.
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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.
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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?
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Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.
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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.
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Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
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The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.
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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.
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He had given her too much. He had given her everything.
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Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.
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Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.
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Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.
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I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.
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So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked. She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?' 'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.' 'Oh. Then. Nothing.' He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.
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Happy endings are a luxury of fiction
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It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.
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