Into the Narrowdark (Last King of Osten Ard #3)

by Tad Williams

“When you discover a flaw in stone, do not examine only the flaw but how it formed, what it will do if left alone, and how the stone around it has responded.”

“The only doom that is inescapable is the doom for which one helplessly waits,”

“Corruption requires silence to succeed.

“It is when you are most certain that you are right—that your cause or belief is beyond question—that you must ask yourself why.”

“My God does what He thinks best. It is not up to me to seek to know His ways.” “A clever way not to blame your God for all the blood spilled in the world.”

Did it take more courage or less to leap into a fight when you were not a hardened fighter?

It is likely we will all die, he realized. I might find myself standing before my Redeemer before the hour is out. What deeds can I do in that time that I would dare to look into His eye and confess? That is all that matters now.