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Quotes from Stone of Farewell — Tad Williams

born 1957 United States

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11 quotes

Things are not always as old songs tell them to be—especially when it is concerning dragons.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

There are no promises in life, Sludig, but it seems to me smarter to take fewer chances.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

There are three kinds of people—the living, the dead, and those at sea.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: “what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.”

Stone of Farewell (1990)

Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one’s words before opening one’s mouth.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

He wanted a home desperately. He was close to the point where he would take a mattress in Hell if the Devil would lend him a pillow.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

She knew that life was but a long struggle against disorder, and that disorder was the inevitable winner.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

Fear goes where it is invited.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

The manchildren, the mortals, have many ideas of what happens after they die, and wrangle about who is right and who is wrong. These disagreements often come to bloodshed, as if they wished to dispatch messengers who could discover the answer to their dispute. Such messengers, as far as I know of mortal philosophy, never return to give their brethren the taste of truth they yearn for.

Stone of Farewell (1990)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tad Williams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.