The Siege of Skyhold Quotes

“No matter how complex or advanced magical warfare grew, rocks moving at high speed would always be relevant.”
― John Bierce, The Siege of Skyhold

“The only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from city to city, and even between neighborhoods within a single city. Life is messy and civilization even messier.”
― John Bierce, The Siege of Skyhold

“But that’s what they do with everything inconvenient in history— either label it as some freak event, or as irrelevant surface details. The only reason their theories even seem consistent is that they’ve presented a version of history rendered into reductive pap, with more lies of omission than facts. They simply can’t allow themselves to acknowledge that history’s basically nothing but messy absurdities, and that there is no inevitable path to it. Every shape will fit into a round hole if you carve it and hammer it enough.”
― John Bierce, The Siege of Skyhold

“The only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from city to city, and even between neighborhoods within a single city. Life is messy and civilization even messier. If your answer is ever any less messy, you’re fooling yourself.”
― John Bierce, The Siege of Skyhold

“Any friendship whose end goal isn’t bloody mass revolution seems like a pretty boring friendship to me,” Talia said.”
― John Bierce, The Siege of Skyhold

“You’re going to base your decision on what this nuisance wants?”
― John Bierce, The Siege of Skyhold

“This is what it means to be a great power,” Alustin continued. “Once you join their games, to stop playing or to stop seeking more power is to die. All power corrupts, Sabae, but absolute personal power, ungoverned by any outside force? It corrupts absolutely and inevitably.”
― John Bierce, The Siege of Skyhold

“Some impossible fights are worth fighting”
― John Bierce, The Siege of Skyhold