Quotes About Riven

And the Shadow fell upon the Land, and the World was riven stone from stone. The oceans fled, and the mountains were swallowed up, and the nations were scattered to the eight corners of the World. The moon was as blood, and the sun was as ashes. The seas boiled, and the living envied the dead. All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

Our public discourse appears permanently riven by conspiracy theories.

Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.

Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven......I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event.

This much I think I do know—that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where that spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish.

What are we doing?" Riven asked. Cale answered, "We're watching." Riven turned his eye to him. "He told you to leave." Cale nodded. "It's only justice if there's a witness." "Justice isn't what he's after, Cale." Cale had not considered that.