The Silent Tower Quotes

“To the pure, all things are pure,” Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus’ best soothsayer voice, “and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.”
― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower

“Of course I’m frivolous,” [Antryg] replied mildly. “You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.”
― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower

“Funny,” [Antryg] said, “if you’re a mage, they always ask you to read the future, as if knowing it will help. I think three-fourths of all prayers prayed are for two and two not to equal four.”
― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower

“His face was a mass of scars and old angers.”
― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower

“In the end, the guards walked her out to her solitary old blue Pinto sitting in the parking lot, and she drove down the dark canyons to the freeway and the brighter lights of the Valley. She wasn’t sure just why the thought of going home alone would frighten her. When she reached it, the place was quiet and normal as ever; but when she finally slept, toward six, it was not restful sleep.”
― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower

“You mean magic is predicated on hope?”
“Hope,” [Antryg] said, “and belief in life. We move blindly from second to second through time. Hope and magic both involve the casting forward of the soul. In a way, both magic and hope are a kind of madness.”
― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower

“But that isn’t all!” Caris broke in, distressed at the sadness in the old man’s voice. “There is more in the world than—than money in the pockets of the merchants and machines to make things to sell! Isn’t there?”
― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower

“The old man’s white brows were pinched down over the bridge of his nose, “and there was grief in his eyes for the loss of one he had known for so many years—grief and something else Caris could not understand. The old man glanced up at the crowd behind them and said “Yes—perhaps.”
― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower