Quotes from Janny Wurts

Athera could ill afford the consequence if the Mistwraith that afflicted the world was ever to yield its hold on sunlight.

Yet contrary evidence supports a claim that the Master was unjustly aligned with evil. Fragments of manuscript survive which expose the entire religion of Light as fraud, and award Arithon the attributes of saint and mystic instead.

Light,' said Asandir, 'and shadow, granted intact upon conception. That's enough to destroy the Mistwraith, but only if the half-brothers work jointly.

Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?

Done without love, any congress between man and woman degrades the creative intelligence that graces your humanity.

Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned. They exist, beyond price, and we cannot hope to match up to them.

Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer?

A soldier's life is all grinding routine. Who sold you the rosy notion of honour, trumped up in bright flags and glory? We're here to burn barley. Tossing a torch takes a damned sight less practice than trenching hard ground with a spade.

Lysaer managed a stumbling step. When his senses cleared from the explosion, his eyes beheld a vista of nightmare.

You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.

Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince.

I always listen, the duke said, annoyed. Just hang your silly, unnatural notion, that hearing means following your orders.

Doubt packs more damage, kept secret.

The wisest of sages have said that a man will choose violence out of fear. The Master's words were expressive, but cold, and directed toward the King. Is your stature so mean that you dare not face me without fetters?

I pity the man who can't cry.

But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!

There are no victims, now. While we survive, for as long as we love, our future is yet to be written.

I trust you, she murmured through urgency. Completely. Without end, and before the beginning.

Look at yourself, idiot. You reek like the slaughter-house. Plan your dastard's revenge as you like. But for those of us liking our company civilized, spare us the horror and bathe yourself first!

But hope always kindles through striving.

I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.

Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.

Talith confronted the self-contained prince she recalled much too clearly from the tumultuous events that surrounded a failed coronation.

Prudence, my prophet,' the sorcerer rebuked. 'The results of prophecies often resolve through strangely twisted circumstance.' But if Asandir was yet aware that the promised talents were split between princes who were enemies with blood debts of seven generations, he said nothing.