The Hand of Oberon Quotes

“Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it.
Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?'
A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.'
You enjoy this duty?'
He nodded.
I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“Heredity or environment? I wondered wryly. We were all of us, to some degree, mad after his fashion. To be honest, it had to be a form of madness, to have so much and to strive so bitterly for just a little more, for a bit of an edge over the others. He carried this tendency to its extreme, that is all. He was a caricature of this mania in all of us. In this sense, did it really matter which of us was the traitor?”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“Добре. Още един ден и ние продължаваме да сме живи. Може дори мъничко бяхме помъдрели. Достатъчно, за да осъзнаем, че все още съществуват много неща, които трябва да научим. Да не губим надежда. Това е то.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“Death is the only limit to the road you travel.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“I want to understand you,” she said. “Ever since I first heard of you back in Rebma, even before Random told me stories, I wondered what it was that drove you. Now I’ve the opportunity—no right, of course, just the opportunity—I felt it worth speaking out of turn and order beyond my station simply to ask you.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“Personality is the one thing we cannot control in our manipulations of Shadow. In fact, it is the means by which we can tell one another from the shadows of ourselves. This is why Flora could not decide about me for so long, back on the Shadow Earth: my new personality was sufficiently different.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“I wish that some time, long ago, something had not been said that was said, or something done that was not done. Something, had we known, which might have let him grow differently, something which would have seen him become another man than the bitter, bent thing I saw up there. It is best now if he is dead. But it is a waste of something that might have been.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“Stubama i dolje. Ni zvuka odozdo. Znači kasno je. Dobro. Još jedan dan, a još smo živi. Možda čak i malo mudriji. Dovoljno mudri da bismo shvatili da mnoge stvari još ne znamo. Doduše, imamo nadu.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“Any of the others can clutch a phantom!”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“We were enough like Brand that I knew a particular species of fear nothing else could provoke.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“You imported a master strategist, you’d better listen to what he has to say.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“He has never been satisfied to be a mere spectator at anything. I’d take an oath he even plots in his sleep.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“The moment stretched beyond the point of action.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“As or other occasions of rest after stress with more stress pending, sleep eluded me for a time.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“He had fathered a great brood of us without providing for a proper succession, he had been less than kind to all of our mothers and he then expected our devotion and support. He played favorites and, in fact, it even seemed he played us off against one another. He then got suckered into something he could not handle and left the kingdom in a mess.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“You people are such an infertile lot that paternity seems to hit you much harder than it does others. Look at Random. For years he had disowned his son, and now-I’ve a feeling he’d risk his life for him.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon

“I turned to a smiling Ganelon, his beard and wild hair molten in a merciless light.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon