Initiate's Trial Quotes

“When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“No driven man hears unwanted counsel.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“Because you’ve survived, there is a next strategy.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“The grievous burden of remorse shouted shame, that a criminally blind ideology could reject the promise of birthright, then mangle the exuberant vigour of life, designed by nature to celebrate only creative abundance.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“You cannot trust yourself,’ she agreed, bed-rock calm. ‘Therefore, let go. Seize life and place trust in me.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“This is my present, also yours, free to choose. I am here at your side, alive, and no ghost. Let beauty and care forge the weapons tonight.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“You are not mine to command. But the choice to kill always means closing the mind to the chance of a living alternative.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“Fanatics don’t choose to stop blinding themselves. His Lordship’s more at risk of becoming the figure-head steered by the needs of the mob."

"What man who leads a pack of followers isn't?”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“Against such odds, I will stand or fall! Whether or not I can rise to surmount the trials before me, I plan to step forward and fight.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who’s given us more, the Light’s faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“Your prim faith in the True Sect’s canon serves naught. The temple preaches a loveless morality that cares not one jot for the plight of our livelihood. The priests are fat parasites, theosophizing on their rumps while folk like us break our backs, milked dry by their tithes and their rote obligations. Where does their doctrine show the least concern for our chance to enjoy the fruits of our happiness?”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“Is my love so small that I cannot let him discover anew what happiness life has to offer?”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial