Once Was Willem Quotes

“Like everyone, I contemplated the mystery of how my past had become my present, and like everyone I could find no way to parse it.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“All these things were nothing but illusions, but Caradoc knew well that when a man’s eye speaks to his heart his wit mostly stays out of the matter.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“To the spirit, naked and endless, the difference is not more than drawing in a breath and letting it out.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“we are the sum of all that has befallen us, and therefore every great event, every great pain sunders us. We jump over the gap and come down on the other side – assuming we did not fall – changed for ever.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“only a fool believes that truth ends all on a sudden at the point where his own sight fails him.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“Children haven’t come to an understanding of the world, and they may build your lies into their believing in ways that will come to hurt them.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“We’re ever changing, those of us who are alive – whether for the first or the second time. But it does not follow that we’re getting wiser or stronger.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“Gird yourself, therefore. I speak of monsters and magic, battle and bloodletting, and the crimes of desperate men.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“As he lay and turned in the dark, his mind quickened with dark purpose. On the morrow he would birth atrocities.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“[O]nly a fool believes that truth ends all on a sudden at the point where his own sight fails him.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem

“He gave order that I should be held and chained to a stake like the bear I was. Well, I said, I make this promise to the man that tries it, that I'll hold no grudge against him but still I'll give his head to his best friend as a joint stool. And I walked out of gates, with none offering to stop me.”
― M.R. Carey, Once Was Willem