The Riddle-Master of Hed Quotes

“If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done.
-Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Riddle-Master of Hed

“If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can’t turn back. There is no answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Riddle-Master of Hed

“The constant fears ran like a current in his mind. Yet there was an odd peace he sometimes felt when at night there were no colors but the fire and the black sky, and no sounds but his harp. At those moments he belonged to the night; he felt nameless, bodiless, as though he could take root and become a tree, drift apart and become the night.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Riddle-Master of Hed

“If I ever carried a weapon into Hed and told the people of Hed to arm themselves, they would look at me as though I were a stranger — and that is what I would be: a stranger in my own land, the weapon like a disease that would wither all the living roots of Hed.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, The Riddle-Master of Hed