The Heretic Emperor Quotes

“Childhood is bound like the Gordian knot with my memories of the Black Sea, and I still feel its waters welling up within me today. Sometimes these waters are leaden, as grey as the military ships that sail on their curved expanses, and sometimes they are blue as pigmented cobalt. Then would come dusk, when I would sit and watch the seabirds waver to shore, flitting from open waters to the quiet empty vastlands in darkening spaces behind me, the same birds Ovid once saw during his exile, perhaps; and the same waters the Argonauts crossed searching for the fleece of renewal.

And out in the distance, invisible, the towering heights of Caucasus, where once-bright memories of the fire-thief have transmuted into something weird and many-faceted, and beyond these, pitch-black Karabakh in dolorous Armenia.”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“Remember the Morning Star,” he enjoined.

But I didn’t tell him about Tegg, whose face was the starry void itself...”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“it seems that he didn’t want a world turned to mud. He believed in a soul.”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“My dreams are all of fire – mother says dreams usually go by opposites, so does that mean the world will end in ice?”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“The multicultural ‘melting pot’ destroys the earth’s myriad of unique cultures by depriving them of authority, assimilating them to the global fast-food anti-culture...”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“For a fair maid of England hath told me
That the crows are departed the Tower.
So I’ll seek for my bailiwick elsewhere,
Sniffing out some new dungheap of power.”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“What is the purpose of these dolls?”

“To play with, of course.”

“Do they look Ukrainian, with their plastic eyes and muddy features blended from every race on earth?”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“I’m not a fan of Kurt’s…I’m no longer writing my thesis on him.”

“Why?”

“He liked guns too much. It didn’t sit right with me as a gun control advocate.”

So, she had become a true conformist, one of the dreaded campus normals!”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“There has never been a riper time for extreme Islam to perish.”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“The room seemed suddenly filled with ghosts, the dreary shades of the politically correct era. (She probably refers to the years 2001-2012.”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“I don’t enjoy money for its own sake, Miss Sedláková,” he told me. “But it’s an important resource for my mission.”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“more of a trend than a ‘kult’ – a set of wealthy feminists who suddenly found it cool to be submissive because they thought that no one had done it before, and because they could. So they became 24/7 subs (on finding the right master), and played the role enthusiastically.”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“Life always finds a way,”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor

“Why are there so many Jewish teachers here, but no Jewish students?” someone asked.”
― Paul Christensen, The Heretic Emperor