Lake of the Long Sun Quotes

“Somewhere—somewhere there had been peace. Turn the key the other way, and the dancers would dance backward, the music play backward, vanished nights reappear …”
― Gene Wolfe, Lake of the Long Sun

“There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.”
― Gene Wolfe, Lake of the Long Sun

“Someone who holds in confidence only those secrets he has been told not to reveal can never be trusted.”
― Gene Wolfe, Lake of the Long Sun

“our sun is long and straight, a line of burning gold fencing our lands from the skylands.”
― Gene Wolfe, Lake of the Long Sun

“You must never let yourself be turned aside from life’s serious and important questions by ridicule.”
― Gene Wolfe, Lake of the Long Sun