The Unholy Consult Quotes

“You are lettered!” Cnaiür urs Skiötha sneered. “Civilized! You abhor the harm that comes of cruel sport! You are sickened by those who whip horses, murder slaves or beat pretty wives! Something numb cramps within you, and you think it hate! But you do nothing! Nothing! You pule and you ponder, you worry loved ones, beat water and scream at skies! You! Do! Nothing!” Moënghus could only gawk at the elemental figure before him, cower. “This!” Cnaiür urs Skiötha boomed on climbing veins. “Read it!” He raked clawed fingers from his abdomen to his chest. “This! This is the history of Hate!”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Unholy Consult

“All power shits. All power sleeps . Strength must be aimed , and so are all things exposed, all things weak. To despise weakness is to loathe existence itself”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Unholy Consult

“They worshipped themselves as the measure of all significance,”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Unholy Consult

“Everything we say to one another, we also say to souls absent. We continually speak to the speech that comes after our voice, forever prepare those who would listen. No truth spoken is true simply because words have consequences, because voices move souls and souls move voices, a great radiation. This is why we so readily admit to corpses what we dare not confess to the living. This why only the executioner can speak without care of consequence. Our speech finds freedom only when the speaker is at an end. This”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Unholy Consult

“To live is to consume and to exude, to excrete and to chew, to turn upon a thousand hidden alchemies, rheumy transformations of what we lust into what we abhor … or love. And so life convulsed and life was expelled from the socket, drawn sheeted in blood from the suffocating real, the very muck of amniotic origin, and held exposed to the scrutiny of cold Void, the hospice of prayer … So that some essence might alight … Some breath be drawn and screamed.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Unholy Consult

“Not all arrows miss an enemy unseen, but no arrow hits an enemy unknown.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Unholy Consult

“To cross Agongorea was to autopsy all landscapes, to cut down to the essential, to be stranded with implacable emptiness … and the life required to conquer it.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Unholy Consult

“Piety was simple, and the World, woefully complex. What was virtuous, what was holy: these were verities that only the simple and the enslaved could know with certainty.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Unholy Consult