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Ansige’s outer appearance could be deceptive, but, given enough time, he let everyone know who and what he was.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
Ansige unreeled the tale of his tribulations, thoroughly ransacking the truth and then dipping into the bag of embellishment and sprinkling with a free hand.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
Let me tell you, I have seen men who are trying to find themselves, and I have seen men who are trying to lose themselves, but rare indeed is the man who knows exactly who he is and where he is at.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
That was the nature of chaos; its effects spanned time in ways that were not always immediately discernible, not even by beings outside of time.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
His mother had been the daughter of a minor chief, and she had carefully instilled in Ansige an understanding of the importance of importance.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
Women fell into that category of fantasies and dreams that worked well when unfulfilled but presented all kinds of problems when brought out into the real world of trial and failure.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
It was a common characteristic among the warriors—no fear of death, and only pride for their scars, but little thought of all that could happen in between those two extremes.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
Paama sat up slowly, moving as cautiously as if facing a lion who had just declared his intention not to pounce, but to have a friendly chat instead.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
Getting information out of them was like extracting gold from ore—a lot of labour and time, and why bother to do it when you know there’s a store just around the corner?
Redemption in Indigo (2010)
Chaos was a far subtler force than most people realised. It would be so easy to sense if it threw off thunderbolts or sent barely sensed thrummings through the fabric of reality, but it was nothing more than the possible made probable. It did not break or bend any laws of nature or tip the balance of the universe.
Redemption in Indigo (2010)