70 quotes
You cannot fight unreason, and as these dead multitudes will tell you — are telling you right now — certitude is the enemy.
The Bonehunters (2006)
An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself.
House of Chains (2002)
'I think I understand. Before there can be disdain, there must be pride.
Forge of Darkness (2013)
But now Apsalar was trying to tell him that competence was not justification. That necessity demanded its own path and there was no virtue to be found at its heart.
House of Chains (2002)
With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.
House of Chains (2002)
"Keep a watch out, fools! There are things out there and you know what happens when things arrive!"
The Bonehunters (2006)
Fanaticism was poison in the soul, and the first victim in its inexorable, ever-growing list was compassion.
The Bonehunters (2006)
'Just so,' agreed the King. 'So accept the escort, Adjunct, or I shall hold my breath until I achieve a most royal shade of purple.'
Dust of Dreams (2009)
Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.
House of Chains (2002)
Reconciliation does not demand that one side surrender to the other. The simple, mutual recognition that mistakes were made is in itself a closing of the divide.
Dust of Dreams (2009)
The righteous will claim sole domain on judgment. The righteous are the first to make hands into fists, the first to shout down dissenters, the first to bully others into compliance.
Toll the Hounds (2008)
“Heed the lesson there, son.”
“What lesson?”
“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don’t notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.”
“I want to be a soldier. A hero.”
“You’ll grow out of it.”
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
'But we're different from hawks and wolves, Ville. We can actually figure out the consequences of what we do, and that makes us ... oh, I don't know the word ...'
Forge of Darkness (2013)
I look at you and I see a man because that’s what men are capable of—I don’t hunt for excuses because I don’t like to think that that’s how nasty we can get. We look at Sorry and we see reflections of ourselves. Hood take it, if we don’t like what we see.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
"Oh," the figure settled back down, "those reasons. Well, yes. Clever, even. But still profoundly stupid."
The Bonehunters (2006)
Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
House of Chains (2002)
— all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?
To grieve is the gift of the living — a gift so many of our kin have long lost
Memories of Ice (2001)
Have any of these thoughts been my own? Look at me—my every move seems a desperate search for someone to blame, always someone else. I’ve made being a tool of a god an excuse, a justification for not thinking, for simply reacting. And others have died for it.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
‘I can see your reasons, my love. But won’t you get thirsty?’ — Inscription found beneath capstone of household well, Lakefront District, Darujhistan
Toll the Hounds (2008)