Chronicles of the Black Gate Quotes

“Family. It’s the one constant in everyone’s life that’s destined to fuck them up.”
― Phil Tucker, Chronicles of the Black Gate: Complete Series

“Life defies. It spites. It glorifies and rewards. It is our privilege to live, and beyond that we can expect no more. Of all the dross matter in the world, we are gifted with life, and for that, we must be eternally grateful – even as we are crushed, as we are broken, as we are maimed and hurt and felled by old age.”
― Phil Tucker, Chronicles of the Black Gate: Complete Series

“I know, I know, I must look a fool. But judge a book not by its gorgeous leather-bound cover, I've always said.”
― Phil Tucker, Chronicles of the Black Gate: Complete Series

“He who seeks to control others loses himself, and in so doing becomes at once less than he was”
― Phil Tucker, Chronicles of the Black Gate: Complete Series

“Stories. Narratives. They were what led armies to war, what toppled empires, what raised one man and ground another under the heel of destiny.”
― Phil Tucker, Chronicles of the Black Gate: Complete Series

“It was such a basic, primal thing, to fill one's stomach. Place a man in an alien floating evil castle, and then hand him a bottle of wine, and all was well once more.”
― Phil Tucker, Chronicles of the Black Gate: Complete Series

“There was too much she couldn’t control—so she wouldn’t try. She would take one step at a time, as her father used to say. Take a problem, break it down to the smallest pieces, each irreducible. Then take the first and solve it. Then the next. Don’t look at the whole. Focus on the space before your feet and take that step. That step taken, take the next, and if you proceed in such manner, you shall one day look up, surprised, to see that you have succeeded.”
― Phil Tucker, Chronicles of the Black Gate: Complete Series