The White Tree Quotes

“Most faiths, he thought, could stand to learn the virtue of keeping their devotion to themselves.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“Overconfidence is a strong ally. People are always surprised when you try to do things you can't.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“Did anyone know anything at all, or finding times when the truth didn't suit them, had they all been repeating falsehoods and nonsense for so long they no longer remembered what was fact and what was invention?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“Sleep's more important than history, as evidenced by the fact the latter puts you to the former.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“It's not the answers, it's that you remember to seek them. Each definition you find brings you one step closer to an unreachable ideal. Don't take that to mean you shouldn't try just because you can never reach it, of course. That's what babies do. Are you a baby?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“So much has happened, boys," he said, draping one hand over the back of a chair and pointing at them with the other. "Came back and the place was a battlefield. I rallied a few of the fellows”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“It's one of those things that's worked, no matter how crazy it sounds, so it's hardly worth getting into why it works.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“Defining the nether's the work of a lifetime. The only way to keep reaching closer to its central duckiness is to know you'll never be done.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“leaving people behind and forgetting them piece by piece was just the way life worked.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree