Quotes from Tad Williams

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity—a waste of precious time and effort. The

He has about him still a kind of terrible beauty, as dangerously beguiling as the grandeur of a storm rushing across the sea.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

Since your father has escaped my justice, it is you who must hear my words. Words. You keep saying... Because that was the gift your father gave to me. And the curse that ruined me as well, changed my life to wretched misery. There are hours yet before the guard comes - nay, eons. An eternity, in fact. This is my time, Miranda. Now you will have your words back: before I kill you, you will hear my tale... and you will know what you have done.

We survive. But when survival is the only goal, what do the survivors become? This

Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles.

I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true—much more difficult than proving they are.

Still, a fanatic heart will ignore what it does not want to know," said Minasao. "It will excuse even that which cannot be excused in the need to find someone to share its bitterness.

Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle!

I guess you don't want to leave copies of Genocide Illustrated out for the UPS guy to see.)

Oh, please, Barrick, sweet angry Barrick, don't fall in love with Death.

Stories are the things people use to give the universe a shape...there is little difference between a folktale, a religous revelation, and a scientific theor

God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were.

A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.

If someone had told her that she would be transported to what was for all purposes a magical land, where history could be rewritten at a whim, or people could suddenly be shrunk to the size of poppy seeds, but that at least for this moment, her most pressing concern would have been the absence of cigarettes, she would have thought them mad.

COME AWAY, dreamer, come away. Soon you will witness things that only sleepers and sorcerers can see. Climb onto the wind and let it bear you—yes, it is a swift and frightening steed, but there are leagues and leagues to journey and the night is short.

As I continued through the streets, through the smoke of the burnings and the rubble of the fires and explosions--for during the chaos of the quarantine parts of the city had become something like war zones--my heart began to perceive that there was a wound in the material world that no amount of science could heal, that in fact science itself was only the helpful lie told to a dying man.

Love. Tired old jokes aside, a real, powerful love does have one thing in common with Hell itself: it burns everything else out of you.

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness.

Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.

If you are going to without trust. men tasks to do, then once they have proved themselves, you should let them get on without you standing over them. There is no point in giving responsibility wifh

For all the things we've seen... my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn't it?