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The only death I fear is dying ignorant.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Paran shook his head, his only surprise the realization that nothing surprised him anymore.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
“The dead never interrupt,” said the mason, “they but arrive.”
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
He who would dominate must learn early that those resisting his command should be destroyed.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
“The mewling, petty acts,” he’d say, “of a short-lived and short-sighted species, Crokus, can do nothing to mar the Great Cycles of Life.”
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
“Since when is speaking the truth presumptuous?”
“You are young, aren’t you?”
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Nor would he recognize hope if it came to him. Too much a stranger, too long a ghost.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
As for presumption, I honestly couldn’t care less. Truth can’t be danced around, not out here, not now, not ever again.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Should you ever outrun the guilt within your past, Sorceress, you will have outrun your soul. When it finds you again it will kill you.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
“What do you mean by a tyrant?”
“One whose blood was poisoned by the ambition to rule over others.”
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
As with most unwitting servants of the gods, once the game was done so was the servant’s life.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal’s hands. Such is the only end to immortality.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
“The Empress expects obedience of her servants, and demands loyalty.”
“Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.”
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Your guest is mundane, a restless personage whose thoughts are thick with greed and treachery. A demon crouches on his shoulder, named Ambition.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Celebrating Gedderone’s Rite of Spring shouldn’t be an excuse to avoid the pressures of reality. It wasn’t just a harmless escape: it was a means of delaying the probable and making it inevitable.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
In the empty eyes of this child, he’d seen the withering of his own soul. The reflection had been unblemished, with no imperfections to challenge the truth of what he saw.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
He had nowhere to look for answers, and he was tired of asking questions.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Through the gamut of life we struggled for control, for a means to fashion the world around us, an eternal, hopeless hunt for the privilege of being able to predict the shape of our lives.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Do I want you to talk to me, old friend? Do I need your reminders, your wry confirmation that faith is for fools?
Gardens of the Moon (1999)
The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.
Gardens of the Moon (1999)