This Tower of Ashes Quotes

“Yet the dreams are often better than the waking, the stories so much finer than the lives.”
― George R.R. Martin, This Tower of Ashes

“Don't fool yourself," he said to me then, his face flush with wine and darkness, "you're not missing nothin'. Lives are rotten stories, y'know. Real stories, now, they usually got a plot to 'em. They start and they go on a bit and when they end they're over, unless the guy's got a series goin'. People's lives don't do that no-how, they just kinda wander around and ramble and go on and on. Nothin' ever finishes."

"People die," I said. "That's enough of a finish, I'd think."

Korbec made a loud sound. "Sure, but have you ever known anybody to die at the right time? No, don't happen that way. Some guys fall over before their lives have properly gotten started, some right in the middle of the best part. Others kinda linger on after everything is really over.”
― George R.R. Martin, This Tower of Ashes