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To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3) QUOTES

To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3) QUOTES

1 " Even the king's Erkynguard might have wished to be elsewhere, rather than here on this killing ground where duty brought them and loyalty prisoned them. Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To Simon, the minds of men who would come to this of their own will were suddenly as incomprehensible as the thoughts of spiders or lizards—less so, even, for the small creatures of the earth almost always fled from danger. These were madmen, Simon realized, and that was the direst problem of the world: that madmen should be strong and unafraid, so that they could force their will on the weak and peace-loving. If God allowed such madness to be, Simon could not help thinking, then He was an old god who had lost His grip. "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

2 " Good stories will tell you that facing the lie is the worst terror of all. And there is no talisman or magic sword that is half so potent a weapon as truth "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

3 " To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind... but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless—except the one we’re fighting now? "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

4 " Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all. "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

5 " 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 , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

6 " Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness. "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

7 " But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

8 " A man who will not listen carefully to advice honestly given is a fool. Of course, a man who blindly takes any advice he receives is a bigger fool. "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

9 " He shouldn't have had to die."

"Nobody should have to die," Miriamele said slowly. "Especially while they're still alive. "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

10 " Just for once, Binabik, I want you to tell me there is an answer for something. I’m tired of thinking so much.” The troll laughed. “The punishment for being born . . . no, perhaps that is too much to be calling that. The punishment for being truly alive—that is fair to say. Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness. "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

11 " As solemn music played, vying with the harsh wind to be heard, the thought came to many of those who watched that although Sesuad’ra’s defenders had won an improbable and heroic victory, they had paid dearly for it. The fact that they had defeated only the tiniest portion of the forces arrayed against them, and had lost nearly half their number in doing so, made the winter-shrouded hillcrest seem an even colder and lonelier place. "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)

12 " I . . . should have known . . . that my . . . torment was not yet finished, my guilt not forgiven. "

― Tad Williams , To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #3)