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Nothing frightens a miser more than the prospect of not getting paid.
We Are All Legends (1981)
I listened to all this with the dull incomprehension of a pig in the slaughterhouse overhearing the talk of two butchers.
We Are All Legends (1981)
“What can I do without you?”
“Whatever is within you.”
The Shattered Goddess (1983)
The true horror story requires a sense of evil, not in necessarily in a theological sense; but the menaces must be truly menacing, life-destroying, and antithetical to happiness.
This place was not divine. It was enchanted, which was a different thing altogether.
We Are All Legends (1981)
“Christ and Satan!”
“Swear by whomever you like,” laughed the King. “Why not Jupiter, Thor, Mithra, and Ahura-Mazda also? It’ll do you as much good.”
We Are All Legends (1981)
“Listen, and listen well. This is the wisdom to end wisdom, the secret of all secrets.”
They both leaned very close, and he told them.
“Some people…will believe…anything!”
The Shattered Goddess (1983)
Prophecies and mysteries. The world was full of them. He didn’t care.
The Shattered Goddess (1983)
At last he understood that he was a prisoner within the palace as much as he was within his own body, that it was not his power which mastered anything, that he would no more rule the world than the glove on a king’s hand actually holds the scepter.
The Shattered Goddess (1983)
I lost my faith on a foreign shore, in the shade of the conscience tree. In the shade of the conscience tree, on a foreign shore, where the sand ran wet with the blood of children.
We Are All Legends (1981)
Now he truly knew, for the first time, that there was no one out there to hear him, that any prayer he might utter would drift and tumble through eternity like a shard of a broken mirror falling through the space beyond the world, turning over and over, glittering, never, never coming to rest.
The Shattered Goddess (1983)
“One more thing I will tell you, the great secret I learned through my experience.”
“What was that?”
“Never listen to idle tales. They make you mad and lead you through the bowels of a god.”
“Of course,” said one of the disciples after he had left, “it is the nature of the madness that one never heeds these warnings.”
We Are All Legends (1981)
I am going into a far country, from which I shall never return. They say that when we depart thence, when we walk the last long road, if we are brave and true and avoid all the perils, we come to paradise, and sit there listening to The Musician play beautiful songs for all of eternity. But this is uncertain, for no witness has ever come back to report it.
The Shattered Goddess (1983)
Men called me a philosopher once, but as the years burdened me further I cared less and less for the pressing questions of astronomy and geomancy and metaphysics and the like. They had been pressing since long before I was born, and I knew they would continue to be so as long as there were two students left to argue over the difference between the real and the ideal.
We Are All Legends (1981)