“The problem with paths is that once you have chosen one, You cannot choose the others. Attributed to Gothos”
“Kruppe wonders now, in the presentsight, as it were – or is it is? – what pedestrian activities or seemingly innocuous events will, in the hindsight of the future, be seen to be foreshadowings of the grievous event which may, or may not, come to pass, and which, by the forewarning, may thusly be headed off.”
“when you think everyone around you is mad, that’s then you should start to suspect it’s actually you.”
“Freedom - rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?”
“Tyranny remains because the weak and fearful seek it.”
“They are the words of an old man who has lost a great friend. A mourning elder who looks at life only to see death. Such a dark vision must not guide a people. We who see life, who look ahead to the future. We must lead. And”
“The truth is that the goal of existence is to kill you.”
“Scillara was not cruel; she was simply not interested and he did not hold this against her. It seemed to him that frankly most people by temperament and character should not be thrust into the role of parents. She was simply uncharacteristic in admitting it. He”
“Did we not look out together upon the dark waters of the lake
And behold there the constellations
Of both hemispheres at once?
-Love Songs of the Cinnamon Wastes”
“Give and give of y’self till there’s nothing left! Only then can you have something! If you take, you diminish things till there’s nothing left. If you give, you provide and things grow! Yes?”
“Speak not to me of the meddling Jaghut!”
“Trust = telling someone about the things that make you sleepless.”
“But even when people are too weak to speak, or have lost consciousness, they can hear; hearing is the last sense to fade.”
“There's nothing worse than a label to cement people's loyalties.”
“One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.”
“In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out of it for a few brief hours every inch a king. Zaccheus climbs up a sycamore tree a crook and climbs down a saint. Paul sets out a hatchet man for the Pharisees and comes back a fool for Christ.”
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