13 quotes
I have seen it before. Little people have to hate, have to blame someone for their own inadequacies.
Shadows Linger (1984)
You try your damnedest, but something always goes wrong. That’s life. If you’re smart, you plan for it.
Shadows Linger (1984)
The essence of sorcery, even for its nonfraudulent practitioners, is misdirection.
Shadows Linger (1984)
How to argue with sociopathic reasoning? Lisa was the heart of Lisa’s universe. Other people existed only to be exploited.
Shadows Linger (1984)
Oh, ‘twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.
Shadows Linger (1984)
It was a day ripped full-grown from the womb of despair.
Shadows Linger (1984)
Simple minds respond to simple answers.
Shadows Linger (1984)
Nobody knew what the Company wanted. Various witnesses assigned motives according to their own fears. Few came anywhere near the mark.
Shadows Linger (1984)
My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion.
Shadows Linger (1984)
Shed swallowed. “That isn’t a plan that does much for my nerves.”
“Your nerves aren’t my problem, Shed. They’re yours. You lost them. Only you can find them again.”
Shadows Linger (1984)
You mess with people’s religion and you mess with fire. Even people who don’t much give a damn. Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.
Shadows Linger (1984)
I do not believe in evil absolute. I have recounted that philosophy in specific in the Annals, and it affects my every observation throughout my tenure as Annalist. I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.
Shadows Linger (1984)
All men are born condemned, so the wise say. All suckle the breast of Death.
All bow before that Shadow Monarch. That Lord in Shadow lifts a finger. A feather flutters to the earth. There is no reason in His song. The good go young. The wicked prosper. He is king of the Chaos Lands. His breath stills all souls.
Shadows Linger (1984)