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“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.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 20, “Travelers and Messengers” (p. 639).

“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…”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 6, “The Circle Narrows” (p. 150).

“There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 24, “The Graylands” (p. 544).

“Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 32, “Northern Tidings” (p. 516).

“Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 8, “On Sikkihoq’s Back” (p. 188).

“Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 12, “Six Silver Sparrows” (p. 177).

“Things are not always as old songs tell them to be—especially when it is concerning dragons.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 8, “On Sikkihoq’s Back” (p. 176).

“Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 9, “Cold and Curses” (p. 237).

“The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 9, “Pages in an Old Book” (p. 301).

“Damn everyone to Hell. And damn the bloody forest. And God, too, for that matter.
He looked up fearfully from his chill handful of water, but his silent blasphemy went unpunished.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 16, “The White Arrow” (p. 238).

“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.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 24, “The Graylands” (p. 540).

“If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 8, “Nights of Fire” (p. 255).

“Ambitious men never believe others aren’t the same.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 30, “A Thousand Nails” (p. 484).

“In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 15, “A Meandering of Ink” (p. 357).

“No charm is proof against a dagger in the back.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 40, “The Green Tent” (p. 677).

““Thank you, Duke,” the troll said seriously. “May your god be blessing us indeed. We go into unknown places.”
“As do all mortals,” Josua added. “Sooner or later.””

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 34, “Forgotten Swords” (p. 567).

“As with all dwellings,” she said, “of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house—not the doors, not the walls.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 25, “Petals in a Wind Storm” (pp. 626-627).

““Do you get tired, singing?” she asked.
Gan Itai laughed quietly. “Does a mother grow tired raising her children? Of course, but it is what I do.””

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 23, “Deep Waters” (p. 591).

“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.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 6, “The Sea-Grave” (p. 185).

“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?”

Tad Williams

The count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”
Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 21, “The Frightened Ones” (p. 491).

“She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 2, “Chains of Many Kinds” (p. 71).

“Are these things you all say magical charms to chase me away? If so, they do not seem to be working.”

Tad Williams

Источник: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 20, “Travelers and Messengers” (p. 636).

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