“An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?"
"Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“The Wars of Light and Shadow were fought during the third age of Athera, the most troubled and strife-filled era recorded in all of history. At that time Arithon, called Master of Shadow, battled the Lord of Light through five centuries of bloody and bitter conflict. If the canons of the religion founded during that period are reliable, the Lord of Light was divinity incarnate, and the Master of Shadow a servant of evil, spinner of dark powers. Temple archives attest with grandiloquent force to be the sole arbiters of truth”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Yet contrary evidence supports a claim that the Master was unjustly aligned with evil. Fragments of manuscript survive which expose the entire religion of Light as fraud, and award Arithon the attributes of saint and mystic instead.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Because the factual account lay hopelessly entangled between legend and theology, sages in the seventh age meditated upon the ancient past, and recalled through visions the events as they happened. Contrary to all expectation, the conflict did not begin on the council stair of Etarra, nor even on the soil of Athera itself; instead the visions started upon the wide oceans of the splinter world, Dascen Elur. This is the chronicle the sages recovered. Let each who reads determine the good and the evil for himself.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Prudence, my prophet,’ the sorcerer rebuked. ‘The results of prophecies often resolve through strangely twisted circumstance.’ But if Asandir was yet aware that the promised talents were split between princes who were enemies with blood debts of seven generations, he said nothing.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
“Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”
― Janny Wurts, quote from The Curse of the Mistwraith
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“It is a sin to write this.”
― Ayn Rand, quote from Anthem
“But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s inner gloom and reminded him that life had a brighter side from which he had long ago turned away.”
― Dean Koontz, quote from Watchers
“I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, quote from Linger
“... if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.”
― Stephen Hawking, quote from A Brief History of Time
“Scheming face,” Inej murmured.
Jesper nodded. “Definitely.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Six of Crows
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