The Wandering Sword Quotes

“but a man could not suffer ghosts always, for they talked incessantly—there was, after all, nothing else that they might do.”
― Jacob Peppers, The Wandering Sword

“if a man means to lead, he ought to first learn how to follow, and if he means to be served, he ought first learn how to serve.”
― Jacob Peppers, The Wandering Sword

“After all, the tailor’s suffering was only a small tragedy in a world full of them, and should a man think to stand against all the world’s evils, even the petty ones, he could only be crushed, for those evils, taken together, were a great mountain, one that could not be stood against.”
― Jacob Peppers, The Wandering Sword

“As he stood there, bathing, feeling the cool water and the warm sun, listening to the sounds of the birds and the squirrels, he reflected, as he often had over the years, that many men spent their entire lives looking for peace but that such a quest was a fool’s errand. Peace wasn’t something a man could find for the looking. Instead, it found him. It found him in brief moments like this, so quick that a man, if he weren’t paying attention, might not notice at all, and so rare that he could never be sure that this time wasn’t the last time.”
― Jacob Peppers, The Wandering Sword

“Whatever the reason, less than half an hour passed before the wanderer committed one of the gravest mistakes, one of the gravest crimes, of his life. He fell asleep.”
― Jacob Peppers, The Wandering Sword