Quotes from Tad Williams

I . . . should have known . . . that my . . . torment was not yet finished, my guilt not forgiven.

The strong never need to silence the weak, or they prove that they are the truly weak ones.

Death itself would turn coward and flee.

Do not make it my complaint, Simon." Her voice was firm but her look contained love and a little amusement as well as irritation.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself in your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. This way it will go with you wherever you journey

The Stone Girl looked down at the ground for a long moment, then up at Renie, squinting her pockmark eyes as though against a fierce sun. "Before I met you," she asked with a certain delicacy, "did you sort of . . . fall down? Maybe on your head?

Go now—return to the land of the living, if you can. You will not receive such a gift a second time.

The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me—and to me it seems chash, meaning correct—that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.

As I said, Princess, I am a writer, and as all know, that is another name for a fool.

I hope not, but hope makes a flimsy armor

I don't know what to do,' he said at last. 'I don't know what will happen.' 'If you did, you would only be making a selection, not a choice.

These were madmen, Simon realized, and that was the direst problem of the world: that madmen should be strong and unafraid, so that they, could force their will on the weak and peace-loving.

Thank you, Duke," the troll said seriously. "May your god be blessing us indeed. We go into unknown places." "As do all mortals," Josua added. "Sooner or later.

Do not brood too much over what went before or worry too much over what is to come. Between those two is everything that matters--all that is.

Code Delphi. Hmmm. My choice of a code phrase to mark out these entries begins to seem . . . rather Delphic. In any case

God always hears us. But He made us, so He must know what we're capable of. That's probably God's First Rule—let nothing shock You.

We were already fucked so many ways they could have dedicated an entire revision of the Kama Sutra just to us.

We of the Hernystiri do not look at the hill streams and say: how can I bring that to my home? We build our homes beside the stream. We do not have a faceless God to glorify with towers taller than the trees of the Circoille. We know that the gods live in the trees and in the bones of the earth, and in the rivers that splash high as any fountain, racing down from the Grianspog mountains.

Los soldados llevan muchas cargas, muchacho, y a veces mantenerse vivo e la más pesada d´ todas

Jedini spomen mene nalazio se u jednoj re?enici zapisanoj nekoliko mjeseci ranije - Breda je danas sretna. Bilo mi je neobi?no blno što je moj o?uh to primijetio i zabilježio

We are all children of both the good and evil that has gone before us.

Existen muchas clases de prisiones. Jarnauga

That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.

Never make your home in a place," the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. "Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things." Morgenes had grinned. "That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course . . .