Where Three Roads Meet Quotes

“Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus

“It is itself a kindness to accept kindness, Doctor.”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus

“I put it to you, Doctor, that our gods are what "good" and "bad" once were before they became categories un human reasoning.”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus

“Guilt. Does anyone escape it? Is guilt the reason we make up stories?”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus

“There’s always another way. But we can only see as we are. And no power on earth, nor above or below it, not even yours, Dr Freud, can deflect the human will when it has its sights set on one direction.”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet

“Know thyself. Then know that you are a human being, a member of the species of mankind. So know first and foremost that you do not know, and what you claim to know is almost certainly a means of distracting yourself from what you really know.”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus

“he made his story into an immortal one, so far as any story is. — But, Dr Freud, stories are all we humans have to make us immortal. 18 —”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet

“I need to tease out how far I was to blame. You’ll understand that, Dr Freud. Guilt. Does anyone escape it? Is guilt the reason we make up stories?”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet

“From the gods’ perspective all ways are the same and all roads will be travelled in the end. It’s only a matter of time.”
― Salley Vickers, Where Three Roads Meet