Blood and Bone Quotes

“Memories are not the truth of the past. We sculpt them to suit our images of our present selves. And, in any case, the truth of then is not the truth of now.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone

“Perhaps it is the case that no organization or hierarchy can withstand the closest of scrutiny. Not even a smugly self-touted meritocracy. The success and persistence of utter fools everywhere is sad testament to that.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone

“Insights from self-reflection were beyond the capability of many – perhaps himself included. Rationalization, denial, self-justification, delusion, all made it nearly impossible for any true insight to penetrate into the depths of one’s being.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone

“Who would have imagined that the dead should be so needy? But they were. They did not know the meaning of the word surcease. Which was probably why they wandered, ever searching – searching for something they would not even recognize should they find it.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone

“Insights from self-reflection were beyond the capability of many – perhaps himself included. Rationalization, denial, self-justification, delusion, all made it nearly impossible for any true insight to penetrate into the depths of one’s being. And Osserc was ruthless enough in his thinking not to consider himself above such equivocations. Therefore, as he had seen in his reflections, one measure of progress was discomfort and pain.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone

“The pain from bruisings and broken bones passed so much more quickly than bruising to the spirit.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone

“Remember this — the truth of what really happens anywhere at any time can never be retrieved or known. All that matters are the reviews.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone

“Kasminod”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone

“You are foreigners. Yet we all live the same lives. We are born, we strive, we die. The difference is we do not make war upon our land. We accept it. We are at peace with it.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone

“Who are you,’ it boomed, ‘to light a fire here in the depths of Himatan?’

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‘Someone who would dare to do so,’ Pon-lor shouted down. ‘Think you on that.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Blood and Bone