Quotes from Tad Williams

And, discovering this truth, she felt it burning inside her. It was so right. She had turned away from a gift, thinking it did not matter, but in fact a gift—and specifically the gift of love—was the only thing that did matter.

stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression.

Beneath the appearance of normality he is strong as Goliath, scaly and supple as a serpent.

I like people, see, I really do. I just don't like them much close up.

Are you still my friend, Binabik?" he said at last. The troll took the flute from his lips. "To death and beyond, Simon-friend." He began to play once more.

Sometimes obvious foolishness is the only answer to grave problems.

It's the same old story— 'Yes, it's too bad, but go suffer somewhere else. . . .

Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one's words before opening one's mouth.

Barrick could only stand and watch them go, alone with the tribe of incomprehensible strangers who lived now in his blood and his thoughts.

Still, it was better than being trampled by teddy bears.

strange days are upon us. Tradition served us, but now it shackles us.

We must speak out when evil shows itself, whether there is any hope of changing it or not.

And you, a king's daughter, who willingly gave herself to me—who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure?" She

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.

The world is a ball of dung and we are the worms that live in it and eat each other.' He turned his back on her, pausing only to add: 'The one who eats all the others wins – but he is still the last living worm in a lump of shit.

What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu

Some types of men, Simon, whose minds are very full of thoughts, they are forgetting to speak and act like normal men.

Better the devil's tongue to argue and question than a silent tongue and an empty head.

And here comes The Aeneid, right on schedule," Martine said. Paul looked at her, but if it was a joke, she wasn't smiling.

If only men would do what they should.

Piglets and pawprints! cried Eatbugs, then paused and looked quickly around. He leaned toward his companions. Let's be off! he added, his voice a conspiratorial whisper.

You were not required to study the Grail process, Ms. Dedoblanco, but I would have thought it worth your while." Wells frowned.

To je poput reinkarnacije - ljudi koji vjeruju u prošle živote uvijek misle da su bili vojvode ili kraljice ili nešto sli?no, zanemaruju?i ?injenicu da je ve?ina ljudi u to doba provodila cijeli život u govnima do koljena sve dok ne bi umrli u krezuboj starosti od trideset godina.

sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation.