15 quotes
Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Winter Rose (1996)
Perhaps there had never been anything at all to see.
Winter Rose (1996)
She lies like the moon lies, a different face every night, all but one of them false, and the one true face as barren and hard as stone. Why do you believe her?
Winter Rose (1996)
I didn’t know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.
Winter Rose (1996)
“But, Corbet, there were things—between us—”
“You imagined many of them. You wanted them to be true, and so they were. But only to you.”
Winter Rose (1996)
Do you care for me at all? Or do you only need me?
Winter Rose (1996)
I do not want to choose which one of you I must love or hate. Here, I am free to do neither. I want no part of your bitterness.
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)
Men see what they are most afraid of.
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)
I could not find my way back in dreams, I knew then. They were memory and desire, terror and hope; they told me only what I already knew.
Winter Rose (1996)
He was silent a moment, struggling. He said finally, “But you had a right to be angry.”
“Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.”
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)
The small red eyes regarded him, unblinking. “What would you give me for all the wisdom of the world?”
“Nothing.” He turned back to his work. “I have heard you know the answers to every riddle save one. That will be the one I need answering.”
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)
He kissed her anyway, lightly on the cheek, before she turned to get her coat, thinking how long he had known her and how little he knew her and how little he knew of how much or little there was in her to know.
“You fought for your freedom and won a different kind of prison. I will fight for mine—”
“You can’t fight me,” Tearle reminded him harshly.
“I know.” In the placid light, his face looked chilled and very weary. “But I can die.”
Winter Rose (1996)
What concern of mine are your affairs? Or Coren’s? What kind of peace would there be in me or in my house if I took interest in the wars and feuds that you weave in the courts below? I do not understand such things. I understand only what lies within my walls.
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974)