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The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3) QUOTES

The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3) QUOTES

1 " Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. — "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

2 " more than anything, it was ignorance that delivered conviction beyond the pale of disputation. Ignorance of questions. Ignorance of alternatives. No tyranny was so complete as blindness. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

3 " Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

4 " Power does not make safe. History murders the children of weak rulers. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

5 " No intellect is orphaned, despite all the foundling hearts. All sons are born stranded because all fathers are sons. Every child is told, even those suckled on the teats of wolves. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

6 " Hope is ever the greatest luxury of the helpless, the capacity to suppose knowledge that circumstances denied. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

7 " What did they know of motherhood, the mad miracle of finding your interior drawn from you, clinging and bawling and giggling and learning everything there was to learn anew? "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

8 " One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten. Heartbroken, "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

9 " the hot glare of evening winked into the chill glow of dusk in a heartbeat "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

10 " Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

11 " to observe a thing always is to observe a thing not at all. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)

12 " She acted for reasons she knew not, spoke words she did not understand, pursuing ends that she could neither fathom nor bear. The "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Great Ordeal (Aspect-Emperor, #3)