22 quotes
She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
Strangely, although the world is already full of fearful things, mortals seems always to hunt for new worries.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion—the two cannot live together.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
Tiamak closed his eyes to make a short prayer of thanks, hoping that the gods, like children, could be confirmed in good behavior by praise.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
Are these things you all say magical charms to chase me away? If so, they do not seem to be working.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
“Why can nothing be simple?”
Geloë shifted on her stool. The wise woman’s voice was surprisingly sympathetic. “Because nothing is simple, Prince Josua.”
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
“You have something that might be more use to me than either gold or power—something that in fact brings both in its train.”
“And what is that?”
The count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. “You cannot catch three fish with two hands,” the little man often said.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
Empires were like seawalls, he thought sadly, even those which embodied the best of hopes. The tide of chaos beat at them, and as soon as no one was shoring up the stones any more...
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
Everyone at the Hayholt had seemed obsessed with the empty ritual of power, something Miriamele had lived with for so long that it held no interest for her. It was like watching a confusing game played by bad-tempered children.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
It was impossible to see warfare as anything other than what Morgenes had once termed it: a kind of hell on earth that impatient mankind had arranged so it would not have to wait for the afterlife.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)
She realized now that she knew little about people outside the courts of Nabban and Erkynland, although she had always thought herself a shrewd judge of humanity. However, it was a larger and much more complicated world on the other side of the castle walls than she had ever suspected.
To Green Angel Tower (1993)