Quotes from Wayne Thomas Batson

There are passages and doors And Realms that lie unseen. There are Roads both wide and narrow And no avenue between. Doors Remain closed for those Who in sad vanity yet hide. Yet when Belief is chosen, The key appears inside. What is lived now will soon pass, And what is not will come to Be. The Door Within must open, For one to truly see. Do you see? Believe and enter.

Adventures are funny things. Some streak down upon you like a storm. Others emerge after many years have passed and something forgotten is revealed. They can be discovered on a dusty bookshelf or the yellowed pages of an ancient map. They promise great reward, but no adventure is without risk.

Adventures are funny things. Many are merely happy accidents—a single spark that ignites an unexpected chain of events. But some adventures are meant for you and you alone. And whether you want them or not, they seek you out of a great crowd and take you somewhere you never thought you'd go. Often, these unlooked for adventures require a sacrifice too great to imagine.

your name your name, paragal, in the old toung, means 'one of pure light' and so you once were. but know this: when your stroke gfalls, so shall your own star fall. Your light will go out, and you will earn a newname. You shall be caled paragor - 'one of true darkness.' darkness will be your dwelling place and it will consume you. You willl ever be hungry for what you can naver have, No darkness in alleble will be as you

I will never deny my King.

Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.

Adventures are funny things. They always begin with the unexpected, but they always end wit the promise of adventures yet to comestoriai

The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.

Ethereal is the true reality, the home from which mankind originated and to which mankind may yet return. The Ethereal is the Forever Realm . . . the final destination. There, and only there, will mankind discover all the senses that are. In Ethereal, living is alive.

Lead, follow—what difference does it make? It's all a choice. There's no escape in blame, no comfort in shirking responsibility. We all make choices. We must all face the consequences of those choices.

You can bend a man and make him soft, or you can bend yourself and make him strong. But you will never have the man you've dreamed of unless you let him lead.

The people of your world are forgetting their foundations. Discernment erodes and muddies all waters, no matter how pure.

They starred into each others eyes even as the guards took hold of Antoinette. She did not utter a word, but a gleam in her and the peaceful expression on her face spoke volumes to Aidan. The cell door slammed shut, and Aidan stood alone in the center of the room

A good leader cannot ask his followers to go where he has not first dared to go.

If you had the mental energy in the tank, you could create in an instant.

if someone will take such good care of your physical bodies in the Temporal." "Don't you worry about that

All folk are afraid of the dark. Be they biggin or wee, the unseen world casts doubt upon reason, scratches

What Paragal intended for evil has become the foundation for much that is good.

Sometimes the way forward is the way back.

He choked back tears, but he felt a great swelling of pride most of all. Antoinette, Robby-they had done it. They had made the right decision.

When a man believes that deciding the fate of others  will grant him control of his own life, he has left the path of reason.

When a fearful people expects everything from its government, tyranny will always arise.