6 quotes
“What can I do without you?”
“Whatever is within you.”
The Shattered Goddess (1983)
“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)
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)
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)