Liam Perrin > Liam's Quotes

“You're cooking", said Elizabeth, and each word came out of her mouth as if it was ashamed of being in the room with the others, "bunny soup.”
― Liam Perrin, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights

“He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it.”
― Liam Perrin, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights

“My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.”
― Liam Perrin, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights

“Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.”
― Liam Perrin, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights

“Take a guy who can walk on water, who can raise people from the dead, who can look at you and tell you what you had for breakfast...if a guy like that can't find twelve trustworthy mates, who can? Stop at eleven and call it done, that's the moral of that story.”
― Liam Perrin, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights

“I would venture to say that approaching the Christian Story from this direction, it has long been my feeling (a joyous feeling) that God redeemed the corrupt makingcreatures, men, in a way fitting to this aspect, as to others, of their strange nature. The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels—peculiarly artistic, beautiful, and moving: ‘mythical’ in their perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. But this story has entered History and the primary world; the desire and aspiration of sub-creation has been raised to the fulfillment of Creation. The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man’s history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy. It has pre-eminently the ‘inner consistency of reality’. There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. To reject it leads either to sadness or to wrath.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien On Fairy-stories