The Navigator's Children Quotes

“Because wanting to be ignorant is like . . . like wanting to be dead just to avoid the pain of being alive.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“I have reached the advanced age where young people think all I say is dubious,”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“Because to love is to make ourselves vulnerable, I think. It means we have opened the door and invited someone in. We have given them the freedom of our house, so when something they do troubles us, we are naked and defenseless.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“Freedom is not freedom when its cost is silence.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“Cherish those you love every day, every hour. That is the greatest lesson of all. We must make our Garden here on earth.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“Along strange paths I will guide you into strange lands,”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“When the hawk is felled, the crows hurry to mock him.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“If you want what we guard, I repeat—come and take it. I will wait for you eagerly.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“I pray that God will see I did my best for my friends and family, even if I failed more often than I succeeded.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“Did you not hear me?” Jiriki cried, though all his people had, and his enemies as well. “Ride, Zida’ya, ride! To the Narrowdark!”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“The wind blew, cold as betrayal,”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“Love, I think, is like fire. We do not know where it comes from, or why it gives us light, but it is what we use to hold back the darkness.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“Isn’t it better to know the truth, however bad, however painful? Because wanting to be ignorant is like . . . like wanting to be dead just to avoid the pain of being alive.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“One of the most terrible things about growing old is having to remember. Not because life is dreadful, but because we take so long to become ourselves, while everyone who met us during our journey knows only the person that we were then. All our errors, foolish mistakes, and unthinking cruelties are still alive to be recollected and often regretted, but the gods seldom give us another chance to be the better person we wish now we could have been.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“To help my Uncle Eolair—and the queen,” said Aelin, “I would grasp at any reed, no matter how slender.” “Well, then, let us take up your reed and see if we can’t poke out Hugh’s eye with it.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“We men will not be disposed of so easily.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“until his heart is tied to another with the strongest cords of all, tied to a wife or a child or both, he will never think twice about the cost of justice, only about justice itself.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“Nothing is given to us when we come to this world but the promise of an ending, Seoman—so we must believe it to be a gift.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“I could not empty the castle of people, though I argued often for more defensive work to be done to the walls and towers, but I could at least make certain these books, which had no other defender but myself, were safe. As I said, the thoughts held in these volumes do not belong to me, but to all men and women of learning. They are our gift to the generations that will come after us.”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children

“general was unsurprised, and raised”
― Tad Williams, The Navigator's Children