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A cut scarred where a caress faded away.
“You see more when you speak less. First your eyes turn outward, the thoughtless way they always turn outward when you have spoken your say: to await a response, to gauge the effectiveness of your lies. But when your voice is bricked over, when you are robbed of the very possibility of speaking, your eyes are left hanging. And like bored children they begin inventing things to do. Like observing things otherwise unseen.”
― The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two (Vol. 2)
― The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two (Vol. 2)
“Achamian’s mother had shrieked. His brothers and sisters had squalled. But a strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable. He had gloated.”
― The Thousandfold Thought
― The Thousandfold Thought
“And it renewed him. It made him whole. For hatred, as much as love, blessed souls with meaning, a more terrible grace.”
― The Great Ordeal
― The Great Ordeal
“Knowing. This was the great irony. Knowing was the foundation of ignorance. To think that one knew was to become utterly blind to the unknown.”
― The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two (Vol. 2)
― The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two (Vol. 2)
“I remember … I remember asking a wise man, once … though whether it was last year or a thousand years ago I cannot tell. I asked him, ‘Why do Men fear the dark?’ I could tell he thought the question wise, though I felt no wisdom in asking it. ‘Because darkness,’ he told me, ‘is ignorance made visible.’ ‘And do Men despise ignorance?’ I asked. ‘No,’ he said, ‘they prize it above all things—all things!—but only so long as it remains invisible.”
― The Judging Eye
― The Judging Eye
Malice’s 2025 Year in Books
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