Quotes from Janny Wurts

What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?

A man wreaks harm because he forgets to love peace. He kills because of self-blinded fear, that imagines no other protection.

You can't let your past write the future

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

What is any war but a massacre?

Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.

I would sooner converse with a snake! He side-stepped the clutter. Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.

There's an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another's degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.

You don't have to like a man to respect him.

Loyalty, he stated, ineffably gentle. A quality honoured by sages and fools, by which humankind finds the courage to trample the reflex for self-preservation.

A bad king revels in his importance. A good one hates his office. He spends himself into infirmity quashing deadly little plots to make power the tool of the greedy.

Because you've survived, there is a next strategy.

I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.

There's a choice? Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.

There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.

Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.

Does imagination or joy come with limits?

Arithon; the word brought Asandir to sharp attention. Whoever had named this prince had known what they were about, for the Paravian root of meaning was 'forger', not of metals, but of destiny.

You cannot trust yourself,' she agreed, bed-rock calm. 'Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.

Fanatics don't choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship's more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob. What man who leads a pack of followers isn't?

Descended of royal lines older than Dascen Elur's archives, Arithon was the last living heir to the High Kingship of Rathain, a land divided in strife since the Mistwraith had drowned the sky.

This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.