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

“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