{"author":"David Eddings","author_id":"David+Eddings","total_quotes":57,"quotes":[{"text":"The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["work","day","boss "],"id":1259,"author_id":"David+Eddings"},{"text":"The men sit around getting fat and arguing with each other about something they call “philosophy” - most of which is pure nonsense.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["feminism","humour","laziness","men","philosophy"],"id":4162,"author_id":"David+Eddings"},{"text":"Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["adolescence","fashion","humor"],"id":11510,"author_id":"David+Eddings"},{"text":"You're going to keep making these mistakes as long as you keep carrying your brain in the same scabbard with your sword, Lelldorin.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["stupidity","war"],"id":12378,"author_id":"David+Eddings"},{"text":"Anyway, Arianna and I left the castle very late one evening. I knew the knight on guard at the drawbridge so I hit hit him over the head because I didn't want to hurt him.Garion blinked.'I knew he'd be honor-bound to try to stop us,' Lelldorin explained. 'I didn't want to have to kill him, so I hit him over the head.'I suppose that makes sense,' Garion said dubiously.'Arianna's almost positive he won't die.'DIE?'I hit him just a little too hard, I think.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["awesome","crazy","funny","hilarious","lelldorin","the-belgariad"],"id":13940,"author_id":"David+Eddings"},{"text":"The queen sighed. 'What am I going to do with all of you now!' 'You're going to let us continue our journey,' Belgarath replied calmly. 'We'll argue about it, of course, but in the end that's the way it'll turn out.'She stared at him. 'You did ask, after all. I'm sure you feel better now that you know.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["awesome","belgarath","funny","garion","porenn","silk","witty"],"id":35962,"author_id":"David+Eddings"},{"text":"You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["homecoming","lost","silk"],"id":47849,"author_id":"David+Eddings"},{"text":"Well, it's nice to know that the Trolls made it this far south,' Ulath said. 'I'd hate to have to go looking for them.''Their Gods were guiding them, Ulath,' Tynian pointed out.'You've never talked with the Troll-Gods, I see,' Ulath laughed. 'Their sense of direction is a little vague - probably because their compass only has two directions on it.''Oh?''North and not-north. It makes finding places a little difficult.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["compass","direction","gods","humor","trolls"],"id":61436,"author_id":"David+Eddings"},{"text":"It’s different,' Sorgan’s younger cousin Torl declared, gesturing at the glorious sunset late that afternoon. 'It’s pretty enough, I suppose, but it’s not too much like the sunsets out at sea. Mountains seem to do peculiar things to the sky.'It’s the clouds, Captain Torl,' Keselo explained. 'Most of the time, I’d imagine, the clouds out over the sea sort of plod along from here to there. When they come to mountains, though, they have to climb up one side and then slide down the other. That sort of scrambles them, so they’re thicker in some places and thinner in others. That’s why we see so many different shades of red in a mountain sunset.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["mountains","nature","sea","sunset"],"id":76077,"author_id":"David+Eddings"},{"text":"Garion,' she said very calmly, 'the universe knew your name before that moon up there was spun out of the emptiness. Whole constellations have been waiting for you since the beginning of time.'I didn't want them to, Aunt Pol.'There are those of us who aren't given that option, Garion. There are things that gave to be done and certain people who have to do them. It's as simple as that.'He smiled rather sadly at her flawless face and gently touched the snowy white lock at her brow. Then, for the last time in his life, he asked the question that had been on his lips since he was a tiny boy. 'Why me, Aunt Pol? Why me?'Can you possibly think of anyone else you'd trust to deal with these matters, Garion?'He had not really been prepared for that question. It came at him in stark simplicity. Now at last he fully understood. 'No,' he sighed, 'I suppose not. Somehow it seems a little unfair, though. I wasn't even consulted.'Neither was I, Garion,' she answered. 'But we didn't have to be consulted, did we? The knowledge of what we have to do is born into us.","author":"David Eddings","tags":["destiny","fantasy","purpose"],"id":78565,"author_id":"David+Eddings"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}