Trumps of Doom Quotes

“It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Power is like money... You can usually get it if you're competent and it's the only thing you want in life.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“The day was not yet over and it was already my most memorable Walpurgisnacht ever.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“People who work in slaughterhouses know that there is a spot on an animal’s forehead to be found by drawing an imaginary line from the right ear to the left eye and another from the left ear to the right eye. They aim the killing blow an inch or two above the junction of this X. My uncle taught me that. He didn’t work in a slaughterhouse, though. He just knew how to kill things.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“He called the place Amber, and said that it was run by a half-mad family, with the city itself peopled by their bastards and folks whose ancestors they brought in from other places ages ago.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Only a fool believes that life has but one meaning.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“I am Merlin the pent, son of Corwin the last, and my dream of light has been turned against me.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“The shadows will not bear me away, for there are no Shadows here.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Somewhere there must be a gap in the icy blue logic that surrounds me, against which I hurl my mind, my cries, my bitter laughter.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“My Trumps do not work here, not even the Trumps of Doom. My magic is useless to me, limited as it is by walls the color of Luke’s ring. I begin to feel that I might enjoy even the escape of temporary insanity, but my reason refuses to surrender to it, there being too many puzzles to trouble me: Dan Martinez, Meg Devlin, my Lady of the Lake…Why?”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Luke’s head and shoulders were limmed above me, his hair a crown of coppery flame in what could be the light of early morning or evening. He was smiling again.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Above me, my mother, Dara, stood upon a low balcony in her natural form, looking down at me in her awful power and beauty.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“You always surprise me-right at the end.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“How come whatever it was that just spoke has your voice?”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“He was dressed in green, and blades must not have bothered him the way they do me, for a good-sized one hung at his right side. He seemed to be using a rolled cloak for a backpack, and he wore its clasp like a decoration upon his left breast-an elaborate thing, a golden bird of some sort.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“I am not normally claustrophobic and my life was not in imminent peril, but something about this shining prison annoyed me out of all proportion to the situation itself.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“I eschewed shortcuts, for flashy shadow spanning helluns also have their price and I did not want to be all whacked out when I arrived.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“I was tired of looking for sense where there wasn’t any.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“My father, and most of the others in Amber and the Courts, swear by the heavy, awkward things, but they are probably made of sterner stuff than myself.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Was that a dark figure ducking behind a windmill tree? Or only the dance of shadows in my shadow-shifting eyes?”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“It seemed as if everyone I met knew me, and as if everyone were playing an elaborate double-game.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Do you know what lies beyond the advancing winds? Chaos.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“All right. You wanted me,” I stated, “and now you have me, heaven help you.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“All of my life I have had a tendency to overreact to things. It seems to run in my family. But I do not want to be like the others. They made a lot of trouble for themselves that way. The full-scale, all-or-nothing reaction may be all right if you always win, but that way also lies high tragedy or at least opera if you happen to be up against something extraordinary.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Now you know what an absolute monarchy is" she explained to Bill. "You can see how power corrupts." "I was corrupt before I had power," Random said, "and rich is better.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Когда вдохновение молчит, разум быстро выдыхается.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom

“Время – его всегда или слишком много, или слишком мало.”
― Roger Zelazny, Trumps of Doom