164 quotes
“Why aid me?”
“God has moved me to help you. Or, if you prefer, it was my reasonless inclination to do so.”
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
He walked up to the high roof where the beacon was lit at night to jog the gods’ amnesia.
Night's Sorceries (1987)
There was no room in him for curiosity; The capacity for observation had long since starved on the aridness of his soul.
The Storm Lord (1976)
The sun in his golden chariot had driven almost to the last meadow of the sky.
Volkhavaar (1977)
The irony of her story is merely that her love became, in the end, her motive rather than her goal, the doorway rather than the house.
Volkhavaar (1977)
Like many a longed-for gift, it was, in possession, unwelcome.
Day by Night (1980)
“I have a plan,” said Xaros, “improbable only in its genius.”
The Storm Lord (1976)
Night, the dark widow, came walking on the hills.
Volkhavaar (1977)
On the threshold of the inner court, where the marriage was to be, priests made offerings at the household altars, to the gods, who, as always, paid no attention.
Night's Sorceries (1987)
Rewa was brave. At least, she was thick-witted enough to be able to ignore personal danger to a great extent.
East of Midnight (1977)
“But what am I to do?” cried the Prince.
“What you feel you must,” said the Theel. “That’s the only thing to do at any time.”
Prince on a White Horse (1982)
A man hunted only for food or clothing or in self-defense. It was another mark of the effete and the sadistic to take life as a sport.
The Storm Lord (1976)
We see what we have always seen. If it seems, it is.
Vazkor, Son of Vazkor (1978)
Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing, we have begun, at last, to understand.
The Birthgrave (1975)
It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.
Volkhavaar (1977)
Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.
The Winter Players (1976)
He had been too near the hard facts of religions as a child to find it soothing.
Companions on the Road (1975)
There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
The Winter Players (1976)
“Some god must be laughing somewhere.”
“Some god is always laughing. That is, if you believe in them, which is surely enough to make them laugh.”
Quest for the White Witch (1978)
Tonight it was to be a play for aristocrats to watch, concerning gods and shepherds; it was the humble villages that clamored for princesses and emperors.
Volkhavaar (1977)