“Do not hurt where holding is enough; do not wound where hurting is enough; do not maim where wounding is enough; and kill not where maiming is enough; the greatest warrior is he who does not need to kill.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“Another blast from Rivenrock shivered the air. It snatched Mhoram's head up, and he faced Covenant with tears streaming down his cheeks. "It is as I have said," he breathed achingly. "Madness is not the only danger in dreams."”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“It was the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“That is Lord Foul’s way in all things—to force his foes to become that which they most hate, and to destroy that which they most love.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“everything that passes unattempted is impossible.” At”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“Courage is for the lean. I am wiser.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“So ignorance increases ignorance, and knowledge”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“I have no special virtue to make me resent him. One must have strength in order to judge the weakness of others. I am not so mighty.” This”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
Stephen R. Donaldson
Born place: in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
Born date May 13, 1947
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“Dear dad,
In a consequence of a trivial altercation with a Captain Tapper, of Wild Violet Lodge, whom I happened to step upon on a corridor of a train, I had a pistol duel this morning in the woods near Kalugano and am now no more. Though the maner of my end can be regarded as a kind of easy suicide, the encounter and the ineffable Captain are in no ways connected with the Sorrows of Young Veen. In 1884, during my first summer in Ardis, I seduced your daughter, who was then twelve. Our torrid affair lasted till my return to Riverlane; it was resumed last June, four years later. That happiness has been the greatest event in my life, and I have no regrets. Yesterday, though, I have discovered she had been unfaithful to me, so we parted. Tapper, I think, may be the chap who was thrown out of one of your gaming clubs for attempting oral intercourse with the washroom attendant, a toothless old cripple, veteran from the first Crimean War. Lots of flowers, please.
Your loving son, Van
He carefully reread his letter – and carefully tore it up. The note he finally placed in his coat pocket was much briefer.
Dear dad, I had a trivial quarrel with a stranger whose faced I slapped and who killed me in a duel near Kalugano. Sorry!
Van”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair..”
― Christopher Moore, quote from Fool
“No, Lucius is harmless,' I fibbed. If you don't count the fact that he thinks he's a warrior prince representing a semi-cannibalistic race of undead bat people.”
― Beth Fantaskey, quote from Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
“I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.”
“Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from White Witch, Black Curse
“I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do”
― Brian K. Vaughan, quote from Saga, Vol. 1
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