“Neither War nor Violent Death,” Morgenes had written, “have anything uplifting about them, yet they are the candle to which Humanity flies again and again, as complacently as the lowly moth. He who has been upon a battlefield, and who is not blinded by popular conceptions, will confirm that on this ground Mankind seems to have created a Hell on Earth out of sheer impatience, rather than waiting for that original to which—if the priests are correct—most of us will eventually be ushered.”
― The Dragonbone Chair
― The Dragonbone Chair
“Pogroms need no reason, sir, none that can weather challenge, in any case. Difference in kind is the first recognition, the only one needed, in fact. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks – all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.”
― Deadhouse Gates
― Deadhouse Gates
“But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden.”
― Tailchaser's Song
― Tailchaser's Song
“God gives us all youth, and the takes it away again. What have you gained to offset that loss? Patience? Perhaps a little wisdom? Then be patient, and perhaps you'll also be wise. (Miriamele)”
― The Witchwood Crown
― The Witchwood Crown
“A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence!”
― The Dragonbone Chair
― The Dragonbone Chair
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