Svaha Quotes

“Interesting times, he thought, remembering the old Chinese curse. Nothing ever seemed simple anymore. Maybe things only got simple when you were dead. That being the case, he was happy to keep on living in interesting times. At least it meant he was still alive. 2”
― Charles de Lint, Svaha

“In any relationship, a certain amount of faith is required of all parties concerned. Hai. Or as Huan had put it, all people were good and bad, weak and strong. In some, the mix leaned more to yin, in others more to yang, but the mix was there in all of them. A simple truth. One of which he'd not been unaware. But he had also believed that a person's actions, good or ill, reflected to which side they leaned. Now he saw that circumstance—the grey fog of the world—could make a good man do evil. Could make an evil man do good. Another truth, but not so simple.”
― Charles de Lint, Svaha