Isle of the Dead / Eye of Cat Quotes

“While suggesting you repent, prophets very seldom predict the wrath of the gods in terms of landslides and hurricanes. No. Floods and fires are what you get for the rottenness of your ways. Primitive man was really on his way when he learned to kindle the one and had enough of the other nearby to put it out.”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead / Eye of Cat

“Something was approaching from beyond the shrub-lined bend. His stream of consciousness fell still. His was now the passive eye of the hunter, discerning everything before it without reflection. His breathing slowed even further. Time ceased to exist. Now .”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead / Eye of Cat

“The nearby Hopis danced and prayed for rain. His people did not. They sought to live with their environment rather than to control it.”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead / Eye of Cat

“Really. It can’t be as bad as all that,” she said. “Bad? Good and evil are always mixed up. It provides order.”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead / Eye of Cat

“experiencing the resurgence of childhood fears. Better to give in and rationalize later than to brave them out for no reason. But they are real, he reflected. I am the shapeshifter who could strike you down without effort. I could have stepped from your nightmare legends. . . .”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead / Eye of Cat

“Overhead, spiece of the night came loose, dropping from the top of a high boulder which leaned from the right.”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead / Eye of Cat

“The Peyoteway, he knew, was an even newer thing, learned from the Utes.”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead / Eye of Cat

“And then everything swam away on dark currents to the places where dreams dwell when they are not being used. . . .”
― Roger Zelazny, Isle of the Dead / Eye of Cat