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The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1) QUOTES

The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1) QUOTES

1 " Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

2 " An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

3 " Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

4 " All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

5 " As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

6 " Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

7 " The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

8 " Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

9 " the resolution of the great West Gate Prophecy. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

10 " The Wars of Light and Shadow were fought during the third age of Athera, the most troubled and strife-filled era recorded in all of history. At that time Arithon, called Master of Shadow, battled the Lord of Light through five centuries of bloody and bitter conflict. If the canons of the religion founded during that period are reliable, the Lord of Light was divinity incarnate, and the Master of Shadow a servant of evil, spinner of dark powers. Temple archives attest with grandiloquent force to be the sole arbiters of truth "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

11 " Yet contrary evidence supports a claim that the Master was unjustly aligned with evil. Fragments of manuscript survive which expose the entire religion of Light as fraud, and award Arithon the attributes of saint and mystic instead. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

12 " Because the factual account lay hopelessly entangled between legend and theology, sages in the seventh age meditated upon the ancient past, and recalled through visions the events as they happened. Contrary to all expectation, the conflict did not begin on the council stair of Etarra, nor even on the soil of Athera itself; instead the visions started upon the wide oceans of the splinter world, Dascen Elur. This is the chronicle the sages recovered. Let each who reads determine the good and the evil for himself. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

13 " The wisest of sages have said that a man will choose violence out of fear." The Master's words were expressive, but cold, and directed toward the King. "Is your stature so mean that you dare not face me without fetters? "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

14 " Prudence, my prophet,’ the sorcerer rebuked. ‘The results of prophecies often resolve through strangely twisted circumstance.’ But if Asandir was yet aware that the promised talents were split between princes who were enemies with blood debts of seven generations, he said nothing. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

15 " Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?"
"Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

16 " A bad king revels in his importance. A good one hates his office. He spends himself into infirmity quashing deadly little plots to make power the tool of the greedy. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

17 " Arithon; the word brought Asandir to sharp attention. Whoever had named this prince had known what they were about, for the Paravian root of meaning was ‘forger’, not of metals, but of destiny. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

18 " Descended of royal lines older than Dascen Elur’s archives, Arithon was the last living heir to the High Kingship of Rathain, a land divided in strife since the Mistwraith had drowned the sky. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

19 " Athera could ill afford the consequence if the Mistwraith that afflicted the world was ever to yield its hold on sunlight. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)

20 " Light,’ said Asandir, ‘and shadow, granted intact upon conception. That’s enough to destroy the Mistwraith, but only if the half-brothers work jointly. "

― Janny Wurts , The Curse of the Mistwraith (Wars of Light and Shadow, #1)