21 Quotes by Edward W. Robertson

She ran up the hill toward the woods. The moon watched her every step, bathing her in silver suspicion. She ignored it for now. The trees swallowed her up, hiding her.

The worst thing of all was very simple: the disruption of the illusion of safety. That if you were a good person who worked hard and stayed within the law, you’d always be okay.

Exactly. The most convincing argument doesn’t come from pithy sayings or aphorisms, but through stories. A clear line of causality, from one event to the next, that seems to be leading to an inevitable conclusion.” “We are fighting our guerrilla war battle by battle.

They may look like dog vomit, but they ain’t dumb.

The woman laughed, shoulders bouncing. “I think the gods eat suffering. That’s why they’ve put it everywhere you look: so anywhere they go, they’ll always be fed.

Sitting out on your own life is the best way to make sure the rest of it’s disappointing.

Most faiths, he thought, could stand to learn the virtue of keeping their devotion to themselves.

How would we even know who to help?” “Easy rule of thumb: you help the side whose village is being burned. In all the wars we’ve seen, have you ever known the village-burners to be on the right side of justice?

I wonder what’s killed more men over the years. Wild animals? Or masculine taunts?