Blood of Amber Quotes

“Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“Most people who daydream of transforming themselves into some vicious beast and going about tearing people's throats out, dismembering them, disfiguring them and perhaps devouring them tend mainly to dwell upon how much fun it would be and generally neglect the practicalities of the situation.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“We crossed a small but sturdy wooden bridge a little later, but no trolls were taking tolls.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I had chosen this spot because, real tomb or fake, it had Corwin’s name on it, so it raised a sense of his presence, for me. I had wanted to get to know him better, and this might be as close as I could ever come.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“This was my father’s tomb-well, cenotaph-built long ago when he had been presumed dead. It had amused him considerably to be able to visit the place later on. Now, of course, its status might have changed. It could be the real thing now. It bothered me, though, more than I’d thought it would.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“Yes, you are like Corwin,” she said. “Crass, but perceptive.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“Later, much later, I was to see this for the rationalization it was; my real reason for denying her the answers she desired was that I was not ready to trust her, or anyone, so close to me as I really am.
Had I known her longer, better -- another year, say -- I might have answered her. I don't know. We never used the word "love," though it must have run through her mind on occasion, as it did through mine. It was, I suppose, that I didn't love her enough to trust her, and then it was too late. So, "I can't tell you," were my words.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“The cat on the stool beside me just kept grinning.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“Luke clapped me on the shoulder, and there was something I wanted to remember, but it kept slipping out of sight.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I put my own foot up on the rail as the Hatter poured us a drink and topped off Luke’s. Luke gestured to his left and the March Hare got a refill too. Humpty was fine, balanced there near the end of things. Tweedledum, Tweedledee, the Dodo, and the Frog Footman kept the music moving. And the Caterpillar just kept puffing away.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I tried to draw him to me, but felt myself drawn toward him instead. There was a mad power I could not fight, and the universe seemed to twist as it took hold of me. Constellations parted before me and I saw the bright railing again. Luke’s booted foot rested upon it.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“You collect stamps. I collect presumptuous sorcerers. She’s mine, and you’re next.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“What do you want anyway?” I called out.

Immediately, that metallic voice replied, “Your blood, your soul, your mind and your body.”

“What about my stamp collection?”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“It is as if, having gotten to know you this well, the Pattern is reluctant to release you.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“The Greand Pattern of Amber, Emblem of Order Matching in power the Great Logrus of the Courts, Sign of Chaos. The tensions between the two seem to generate everything that matters. Get involved with either, lose control-and you’re done for. Just my luck to be involved with both.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I’d a mess of spells to work and hang, for I’d no intention of going gently to the place where the wild winds blew.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I walked back outside, leaving my feelings in the crypt.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I realized, suddenly, why I had trusted Luke. He had been right, back at Arbor House. If I learned of Corwin’s death and saw that blame could be fixed for it, I know that I would drop everything else, that I would go off to present the bill and collect it, that I would have to close the account, to write the receipt in blood. Even had I not known Luke as I did, it was easy to see myself in his actions and too uncomfortable a thing to judge him.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“Your stories tend to be bizarre and convoluted.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I want to look at you, Merlin,” it stated. “I want to see you puzzled. I want to see your fear. I want to see your anguish before I see your blood.”

“Then I take it this is a personal rather than a business matter?”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“Power in its many shapes, varieties, sizes and styles, continues to fascinate me. It has been so much a part of my life for so long that I feel very familiar with it, though I doubt that I will ever understand it fully.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I don’t see that duty and morality are the same things.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“Money buys things,” Luke said. “Power makes things happen. If you ever have a choice, take the power.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I never told anyone that there had been no resistance as I had lowered my foot, because once you set foot on the Pattern or the Logrus there is no returning back. You either proceed to the end or are destroyed by it. And as much as I love mysteries, my break was at its end and I had to get back to class.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“It has always been our way to keep an eye on power, to try to understand it, to control it. Because one day it could become a threat.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“There was something in her gaze I did not like, but I moved forward to where she had been standing.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“I was able to see beyond the tree now, though the fog, to discern most of the strange Pattern which twisted its bright way about the ground, working its passages inward to its off-center terminus, the only spot still concealed by an unmoving tower of light, within which tiny lights like stars seemed to turn.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“We clung to our small stones with shapeshifted feet, there on an outer current Chaos drifting, as at the whirlpool’s rim.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber: Book 7 in The Chronicles of Amber

“The blood oozed from the incision in my left forearm and formed itself into heads which rose into the air and drifted away from me like a handful of scattered roses.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“She laughed, and I realized it was the first time I had ever heard her do it. It was not the cold, mocking thing I would have guessed at from Caine’s lady.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber