Knight of Shadows Quotes

“Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“This place is a kind of eternal underside to Shadow.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“We followed it to the right until it turned left.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“Most sorcerers leave a certain amount of not normally visible magical clutter about, but Brand seemed to have been a real slob, though of course, he might have been rushed quite a bit near the end when he was trying to take over the universe.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“She lunged at me, but he stooped, caught me beneath his shoulders, and snatched me out of her way.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“Well, well, well,” I heard Dara say, and looking that way, I saw that she also had a knife and fork, “What’s a bastard like you doing in a nice place like this?”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“You liked that mad Prince of Amber more than you ever cared for our father, who was a decent man,” he said to her. “That’s why Merlin was always your pet, isn’t it?”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“Turning my head, I saw that this figure, too, now face inward, and it was Coral and her right eye was covered by a black patch and she, too, held a knife in her right hand. Then I saw what was in her left hand, and I shot a glance back at Julia. Yes, they held forks as well as knives.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“The figure in the vicinity of my left foot did an about-face and stood staring down at me. She wore a blue robe, but there was no mask upon her fire-reddened face. There was only a tight smile, which went away when she licked her lips. It was Julia, and there was a knife in her right hand.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“I’d swear an animalistic travesty of my own face leered at me for a moment, tongue lolling, from a mid-level rectangle of quicksilver to my left, framed in ceramic flowers, face humanizing as I turned, quickly to mock me.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“Mandor, still clad mainly in black, his hair a great mass of silver-white, appeared suddenly, glancing at Coral and Nayda, focusing on me, beginning to smile, stepping forward. Then his gaze shifted, and he halted. He stared. I had never seen that frightened expression on his face before.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“The metal balls were to Mandor what Frakir was to me-a piece of idiosyncratic personal magic, forged out of his unconscious in the heart of the Logrus.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“I had thought of knocking out a wall-in keeping with the recent spirit of remodeling and redecorating Random had gotten into-adding Brand’s rooms to my own, for a very good-size apartment. The rumor that his were haunted, though, and the wailings I sometimes heard through the walls late at night dissuaded me.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“Maybe I’ve got a pocket universe under my bed. I’ve never looked.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“If knowledge really is power, then I needed all I could get my hands on, as I’d felt especially vulnerable for some time.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“By the time I reached the long corridor which ran past the library I knew that Random was back because I didn’t know anyone else around here who could drum like that-or would dare to use the King’s drums if he could.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“I’m actually starting to get hunches. I’ll tell you as soon as I’ve checked this one out.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“My mind plunged and reared through the pool of blood that was the Jewel’s interior.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“The next time I came around and gave it a quick glance the world was still a blue place.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“Maybe the Pattern did have a sense of humor. I don’t know.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“I drew my next breath in a heart of fire.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“I could feel myself being transformed into an expression of pure will, as everything that I was became focused upon a single end.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“I was born to live for one hour-unless I kill you. If I do, your life will be given to me.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“The only way to make this happen as it must, as I understand it, was to synthesize my personality in some fashion.”

“So you’re me with a lobotomy and orders to kill.”

“Don’t say that,” he replied. “It makes it sound wrong, and what I’m doing is right. We may even have many of the same memories.”

“Let me through and I’ll talk to you afterward. I think the Logrus may have screwed itself by trying this stunt. You don’t want to kill yourself, and neither do I. Together we could win this game, and there’s room in Shadow for more than one Merlin.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“The blue-white fires came up even higher with my next step, and in their light I saw his face. It was my own.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“Now if he’s become such a threat as you’ve indicated, you might find me more than a little useful when it comes to second-guessing him.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“Just passing through on my way to a far, far better place.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“I removed one of the spare clasp pins I keep pinned to the inside of my cloak. I used to fasten the rose at my left breast.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“Silver rose of Amber-Lord Corwin’s, I believe. Hello, Merlin. Looking for your father?”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows

“One day I may learn when to keep my mouth shut or to quit while I’m ahead. Same thing.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows