Into the Narrowdark Quotes

“I am a scholar. My only monarch is truth.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“Most men want to believe things that make them feel comforted, and they will ignore any difficult truth to keep believing.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“It seems the king rewards his lackeys well, even as he mistreats those who truly love their country.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“Hah! Maybe you . . . didn’t remember . . . that I am the Commoner King.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“Didn’t expect . . . to get kicked . . . in the ballocks, did you?”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“Am I in a story then? And if I am, how does it end?”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“You don’t know you’re in a story until someone tells it to you afterward.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“I didn’t know much of anything about the world before this. This new thought was both shameful and liberating. And it will all go on without me when I’m dead. The mountains don’t care about princes. They were here before me, and they’ll still be here after I’m gone.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“Once he has reached a decision, it must be as Heaven itself has ordered it. Otherwise, his command of his liegemen will become a thing of conversation and argument, which is death in a time of need. Show no weakness!”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“A noble cannot show weakness, either in war or diplomacy,”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“He wondered, as sleep took him, how the Lord God could love mankind even after watching them do such violent harm to one another.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“No!” cried Etan, and the men all turned to look at him, as if a dog had suddenly begun human speech.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“Hell for the living. Hell for the dying.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“The exhilaration of the first evening, when he had been delighted simply to find himself alive, was gone. He wondered, as sleep took him, how the Lord God could love mankind even after watching them do such violent harm to one another.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark

“But a small, quiet voice inside Simon continued to remind him—promise him—that death always came at last. And when it came, all burdens would fall away.”
― Tad Williams, Into the Narrowdark