Raymond E. Feist

Raymond E. Feist (born Raymond Elias Gonzales III; December 21, 1945) is an American fantasy author, best known for the The Riftwar Cycle, a series of novels and short stories.

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All page numbers are from the mass market paperback edition of the Author's Preferred Edition, published by Bantam Spectra in 1994, ISBN 0-553-56494-3, 31st printing (July 2004)

• But legends are common enough. Turn up any rock on the beach and you’ll find one. I for one prefer to look for real answers to our shortcomings, not blame them on ancient superstitions.
  • Chapter 3, “Keep” (p. 52)

• No disrespect to you, Tully. But don’t try to teach an old thief to steal. I know your order chops logic with the best of them, and that half your brother clerics fall into laughing fits when they hear those deadly serious young acolytes debate theological issues set aside a century ago.
  • Chapter 3, “Keep” (p. 53)

• Well, knowing your own part in this is a good sign that you’re becoming a man. Most boys would have tried to justify their actions by shifting blame or by claiming some moral imperative to fight.
  • Chapter 3, “Keep” (p. 64)

• “I don’t know what to say.”
  “Then say nothing, Pug. It makes you seem wise when everyone is babbling.”
  • Chapter 4, “Assault” (p. 84)

• “I’m not one to advise you in such matters, I fear, as I’ve had scant experience with women, of any age, let alone such young and headstrong ones.” Looking Pug in the eyes, he said, “But this much I do know, it is almost impossible in the heat of the moment to understand long-term consequences.”
  • Chapter 7, “Understanding” (p. 180)

• “Our host is the sort who sees which way the wind blows before making up his mind; he waits word from the merchant before deciding if we’re prisoners or guests.” The magician chuckled. “You’ll find as you grow older that minor functionaries are the same the world over.”
  • Chapter 11, “Sorcerer’s Isle” (p. 270)

• There may be a more superstitious breed on Midkemia than sailors, but who they are I could not tell you.
  • Chapter 11, “Sorcerer’s Isle” (p. 280)

• Pug questioned him with a look. “I don’t understand.”
  The traveler shook his head. “I don’t expect you to, Pug. Let us say that things are occurring that can be understood only by examination after the fact, with a distance of time separating the participants from the participating.”
  • Chapter 11, “Sorcerer’s Isle” (p. 287)

• When the boy had finished, the King said, “That is a wonderful tale. It is better than the versions that have reached our court, for while it is not half so heroic, it is twice as impressive for being true.”
  • Chapter 13, “Rillanon” (p. 329)

• One time is much like another to death. She comes when she will. So why give over your mind to worry?
  • Chapter 17, “Attack” (p. 437)

• Among man’s strange undertakings, war stood clearly forth as the strangest.
  • Chapter 17, “Attack” (p. 453)