The Elephants' Graveyard Quotes

“There's really only one choice you ever have to make in any act of creation. Will you be the instrument or the artist? If you're only now coming to realize that you've been a tool all your life, there's no one to blame for it but yourself. If you don't like that state of affairs, then act! Impose your will upon the world and walk your own path. If you don't, you'll just end up being a token in someone else's game; you'll continue to be used as they see fit. That's how the universe works. You don't have to like it, but you'd do well to get used to it.”
― Lawrence M. Schoen, Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

“He'd never been the type of awaken easily, always struggling to cross that daily border between slumber and the responsibilities of the wide awake world. But that day he had opened his eyes and known. Death had announced itself, named a time and place, and left him instantly alert.”
― Lawrence M. Schoen, Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

“Jorl had said he would take responsibility for his son’s education. Arlo hadn’t reflected on what that meant; what an historian’s sensibilities would do to the keen edge of his son’s hunger for learning.”
― Lawrence M. Schoen, The Elephants' Graveyard