The Cycle of Arawn Quotes

“What a terrible thing, when what's right is overruled by what's popular,”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“It's better to know nothing than to have to unlearn false wisdom.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“I wonder what's killed more men over the years. Wild animals? Or masculine taunts?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“All set?" Cally said when he showed up twenty minutes later.
"Yes."
"Good. Overconfidence is a strong ally. People are always surprised when you try to do things you
can't.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“was sad to think how quickly things became lost. It was no wonder things were the way they were. Memories, people, your own self. You thought you'd always have them, that you'd be able to draw on them in times of need, but they slipped away like the days, gone before you knew it.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“would ask what you want carved on your grave. " "I would like it to say 'Why Do You Care Who Is Buried Here?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“But hope was frustration's favorite food,”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Speech is a dangerously imprecise form of communication even when we try to be as exact as we can be. If we're sloppy on purpose who knows what disasters might come of it?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Too much lust for knowledge was the trappings and vanity of an unreal world.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“But this was why you needed others: their brains operated differently. Frustratingly so, too often, but sometimes their shape of crazy was the perfect complement for your own.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“You should know this about giants: when one decides not to crush you, that's because he means to eat you instead.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Oops!" "We should probably put that on our tombstones." "That or 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Men are the ones who keep trying to drag the gods down to earth. The gods don't give a damn what we do to ourselves.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“insulting your elders is a good way to ensure you'll never have the chance to become one.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“If you want to change the world for the good, you have to be willing to put on the mask of the villain.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“hunger turns stones into soup.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Your loyalty is all you have. If you forfeit that, you burn the forest of your soul.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“I am sorry. My mother once told me I'd have to learn a blade to protect myself from my tongue." "Smart woman.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Meanwhile, the few norren who desired political office were typically those who lacked the brains to ever be granted it. Many of the most thoughtful spoke little at all, preferring to be thought of as mentally crippled rather than exposing the wisdom of their philosophies and thus putting them at risk of a sudden promotion to power.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Rules are a luxury for those with the power to play by them.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“It was like old people were terrified of dying without duplicating their minds on those who would replace them.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“so many of our own." Vee nodded. "Better to look like the hole of an ass than to look from behind the bars of a cage.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Which raises the question: what good is it to be noble and dutiful without the competence to back it up?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“used to raise the dog from the creek. Goosebumps stood out on Dante's neck and arms. He packed away the book and hauled the heavy gravestone”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“it was, for the most part, your typical large city: a scab of nobles, wealthy merchants, and shipping tycoons crusted over a great messy wound of laborers and peons.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“There”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Nak stepped him through the Narashtovik alphabet, which was nearly identical to Mallish but lacking three letters, and the subtleties of its pronunciation, which unlike the Mallish stew was regular and orderly as the board of a game of cotters, and which Nak claimed was close enough to Gaskan to sound like no more than a regional accent. He made Dante write it out five times, then speak each letter five more. He drilled Dante on the verb conjugations of Narashtovik and its relation to modern Gaskan. He showed him the structure of its grammar in simple sentences, taught him a handful of words, the precise laws of how a verb cycled through the tenses of the present, the past, the future, the subjunctive. He bade Dante write out a dozen verbs through each of their forms and left on some monkish errand. Busywork, Dante thought, and far too much to take in at once. That Nak wanted him to learn through rote memorization struck him as an insult.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“less a court than the palace in the capital, where respect and obedience are”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“He leaned back, gazed up into the timbers of the ceiling. He felt as if he could rip the roof down with a look. Why hadn't he been like this before? Why hadn't he known that what he was depended on no more than what he willed himself to be?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy