335 quotes
I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.
Enchantment (1999)
Lolla-Wossiky is left like a White man then. Cut off from the land. Ground crunching underfoot. Branches snagging. Roots tripping. Animals running away.
Red Prophet (1988)
I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
Treason (1988)
We are all fools when one wise man appears.
The Call Of Earth (1992)
You can't tell real from a rutabaga.
Seventh Son (1987)
I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines — the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)
Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn't understand what real badness was.
Alvin Journeyman (1995)
It has been my experience that the better a man you are, the more folks there are who resent you for it, and find occasion to get angry at you no matter how kindly meant your deeds may be.
Alvin Journeyman (1995)
We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
Red Prophet (1988)
Good people can't out-think evil, 'cause evil think of things good folks can't think of. Can't enter your head what evil do.
Homebody (1998)
“I want to know how many years I got.”
“Many,” said Ta-Kumsaw. “Or few. All that matters is what you do with however many years you have.”
Red Prophet (1988)
That's love too. It ain't sex, and maybe that's too bad, but you know, Cindy, when a man and a woman care for each other, that doesn't always mean they have to sleep together or live together.
Homebody (1998)
We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.
Earthborn (1995)
Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.
Stone Tables (1997)
“Part of the test,” said Sillain, “is seeing how well you obey orders.”
“Then I fail,” said John Paul.
Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?
The Memory Of Earth (1992)
I had never believed I had a soul until then, when it laid bare a hurt more deep than any part of me could bear.
Treason (1988)
Was it worth it? To lose part of who he had been in order to live free? Perhaps this new self was better than the old.
Prentice Alvin (1989)
Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst.
Treason (1988)
How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the things she said and did?
Homebody (1998)