The Widow's House Quotes

“How long can you pretend to be something before you aren’t pretending anymore?”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House

“Words can so often mean what you take from them rather than what was intended.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House

“You have all the time there is between right now and whenever it’s too late.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House

“Speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core of speculation requires the absence of judgement.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House

“Even a man persuaded that the great powers of the heavens loved him above all else could starve. However powerful a story might be, it had its limits, and the brute material world didn't listen or care what priests and bankers told it.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House

“She knew to expect the anxiety, and so it was only an indisposition. The knot in her belly, the shapeless fear and dread, the craving for wine or beer or something stronger. She watched all of it happening to her, almost able to predict when the next wave would wash over her and when it would recede. In the meantime, grapes and cheese, water and wine. Not enough wine to untie her knots, though. She needed her wits more than the peace, and somewhere in her travels she’d learned how to suffer rather than indulge her need for strong drink.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House

“The thing that had been her son smiled at her, misunderstanding. It was good enough.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House

“Children are who they are. I may love them all, but I know them too. Their feet are as much clay as my own. It hardly matters what path we’ve walked to become what we are. Whatever it was, we’ve walked it.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House

“Did we win?” Salan asked as Karol stood. “Hell yes, we did,” Karol said, glad that he didn’t have to lie to say it. “You just stay there and wait your turn. And don’t get impatient. We don’t rush the cunning men for pinpricks and scrapes.” “Be all right with me if they rushed a little, sir.”
― Daniel Abraham, The Widow's House