22 Quotes by C.S. Friedman

There is no such thing as redemption, my friend. There is right, there is wrong, and there are a million shades of color between the two. Once you’ve done wrong, it is always with you. You just have to try and be better.

Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.

I stood balanced on the brink of madness. Insanity and longevity are a truly terrifying combination; if I gave in now, I might pay the price for centuries to come.

Evil is what you make of it, the Prophet had written. Bind it to a higher Purpose, and you will have altered its nature. And: We use what tools we must. Damien.

I dreamed of a beast in human form, that hunted men for pleasure. When they brought it down – at last, after many deaths – they cut it open. Only to find a wormlike thing coiled in a bed of slime at the center of it, where the heart should be, and a webwork of puppeteer’s strings leading outward through the flesh. I screamed.

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.

Fear would come in time, no doubt, but that did not mean she had to issue it a formal invitation.

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

Morality is the constant of human existence.