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Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1) QUOTES

Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1) QUOTES

1 " I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

2 " In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay... "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

3 " Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

4 " I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

5 " There are none of you, good doctors, could cope with my family anyway. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

6 " I would never rest until I held vengeance and the throne within my hand, and good night sweet prince to anybody who stood between me and these things. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

7 " I tako, kad se već činilo da imam cijelu kuću na raspolaganju, odlučih se vratiti u knjižnicu i vidjeti što mogu otkriti. Osim toga, volim knjižnice. Osjećam se ugodno i sigurno okružen sa svih strana zidovima od riječi, predivnih i mudrih. Uvijek se osjećam bolje kad mogu vidjeti da postoji nešto što rastjeruje tamu. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

8 " Personal feelings don't make for good politics, legal decisions, or business deals. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

9 " I was willing to die fighting, but it was senseless for all these men to go down with me. Perhaps my blood was tainted, despite my power over the Pattern. A true prince of Amber should have had no such qualms. I decided then that my centuries on the Shadow Earth had changed me, softened me perhaps, had done something to me which made me unlike my brothers. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

10 " Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

11 " You leap too quickly to his defense. It reveals his true attitude, of which he has doubtless made you aware. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

12 " there is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

13 " I saw the Old Moon with the New Moon in her arms, hovering above a row of poplars. The "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

14 " Wishes, wishes," I told him, "Wish in one hand and do something else in the other, and squeeze them both and see which comes true. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

15 " We talked the moon out of heavens before either of us grew tired. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

16 " What an enormous chutzpah you possess," I told him. "What makes you better than the rest of us, and more fit to rule?" "The fact that I was able to occupy the throne," he replied. "Try and take it. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

17 " All roads lead to Amber," he said, as though it were an axiom. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

18 " Of all my relations, I like sex the best and Eric the least. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

19 " Spavati, možda i sanjati... "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)

20 " I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably man-like, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice—sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice. "

― Roger Zelazny , Nine Princes in Amber (The Chronicles of Amber #1)