The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)

by R. Scott Bakker

Like places too near, places too far could never be holy.

Maithanet carried a plague whose primary symptom was certainty.

“That’s the horrible fact of sinners. We’re indistinguishable from the righteous.”

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?