Deborah

“If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him.”
― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

“A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.”
― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

“When you were old, did your memories crowd out your other thoughts? Or did you lose them—your childhood, your hated enemies, your friends?”
― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

“A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.”
― Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair