K. J. Parker Quotes

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If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?

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Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

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Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

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Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.

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Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

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That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail—but there was so much of it; you killed an hour, but what good did that do when there were thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions more hours just waiting to take its place?

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There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

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K. J. Parker

K. J. Parker

Born: September 13, 1961 (age 63)

Bio: K. J. Parker is the pseudonym under which the British author Tom Holt has published fantasy fiction. Parker's identity as Holt was kept secret for 17 years, until April 2015.

Known for:

Devices and Desires (2005)
Colours in the Steel (1998)
The Escapement (2007)
Evil for Evil (2006)
The Belly of the Bow (1999)

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