The Court of the Blind King Quotes

“To Dwy-Hor. And beyond. Their hypernatural vigour filled the air with wooden creaks, branches swaying, leaves rustling, the slow talk of unimaginably ancient things. Lurien tried to follow just a measure of their song. The motifs were hauntingly strange, a long sequence of decrescendos designed to arouse feelings he did not possess and suggest metaphors he could not frame.”
― David Guymer, The Court of the Blind King

“There was a lesson from the gods there, his mother would have said, about hubris and impermanence.
And Queen Lágethé, Tidemistress of the City of Seers, a proven authority on hubris, was now well placed to muse on impermanence.”
― David Guymer, The Court of the Blind King

“The only things that come easily are those which no one values.”
― David Guymer, The Court of the Blind King