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Redoubt (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, #4) QUOTES

Redoubt (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, #4) QUOTES

1 " Or, as Nikolas had said, in tones of admiration, "She can tell you to go to hell in a way that will send you running off to pack your bags. "

― Mercedes Lackey , Redoubt (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, #4)

2 " Priests confine broad truths into narrow doctrines, because more rules mean that they have more power. Priests mistake their own prejudice for conscience and mistake what they personally fear for what should universally be feared. Priests look inward to their own small souls and try to impress that smallness on the world, when they should be looking at the greatness of the universe and trying to impress that upon their souls. Priests forget they owe everything to their gods and begin to think the world owes everything to them . . . : the cat stopped, and shook his head. :Power is a poison. "

― Mercedes Lackey , Redoubt (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, #4)

3 " Priests look inward to their own small souls and try to impress that smallness on the world, when they should be looking at the greatness of the universe and trying to impress that upon their souls. "

― Mercedes Lackey , Redoubt (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, #4)

4 " But if he couldn’t get it back? He wrestled with that problem, stared that possibility right in the face, so to speak, and reminded himself that just because he didn’t want something to happen, that didn’t mean it wouldn’t. Slowly, reluctantly, he came to the understanding that there was only one possible answer to that question. Then . . . I don’t get it back. I live with that. I do my best. And I figure out how to make everything work without it. Because every moment he wasted in fruitless railing and longing was going to be a moment he could be using to make things work, and every moment he wasted that way would be one less moment when he could be working toward being happy and enjoying what he had. That didn’t mean he wasn’t going to cry over it; he would. He knew he would. He was on the verge of it now. But he was not, by all the gods that were, going to let it ruin his life and the lives of everyone around him. Just as he would learn how to make things work if he were blinded, or lost a hand or a foot or anything else, he would learn how to make this work. He wouldn’t like it. There was no reason why he should. And he wouldn’t stop trying to get it back, either. But in the meantime, just as he wasn’t going to curl up in a ball and wail helplessly and die because he was stuck in the howling wilderness without equipment or food or proper training, he wasn’t going to do the same because he’d lost his Mindspeech "

― Mercedes Lackey , Redoubt (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, #4)

5 " :Because I’m a cat, silly. Cats do what cats will do, and neither man nor god can do anything about it. That’s why Vkandis made us His instruments "

― Mercedes Lackey , Redoubt (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, #4)

6 " Cats do what cats will do, and neither man nor god can do anything about it. "

― Mercedes Lackey , Redoubt (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, #4)

7 " The cat paused. :What always happens when religion goes to the bad?: the cat replied, and resumed his grooming. :Power. The love of power overcomes the love of the gods. Priests stop listening for the voice in their hearts and souls—which is very, very hard to hear even at the best of times—and start to listen only to what they wish to hear or to the voice of their own selfish desires. Priests begin to believe that they, and not the gods, are the real authorities. Priests confine broad truths into narrow doctrines, because more rules mean that they have more power. Priests mistake their own prejudice for conscience and mistake what they personally fear for what should universally be feared. Priests look inward to their own small souls and try to impress that smallness on the world, when they should be looking at the greatness of the universe and trying to impress that upon their souls. Priests forget they owe everything to their gods and begin to think the world owes everything to them . . . : the cat stopped, and shook his head. :Power is a poison. Priests should know better than to indulge in it. "

― Mercedes Lackey , Redoubt (Valdemar: Collegium Chronicles, #4)