Malice

“Reading, she realized, resituated . It made gauze of what was immediate, and allowed what was ancient and faraway to rise into view. It unpinned here from the senses, and made it everywhere. It released now from the cage of the present, and lent it the aspect of eternity.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought

“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.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two (Vol. 2)

“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.”
― R. Scott Bakker, 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.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought