24 Quotes by Ian C. Esslemont

When one considers such ancient times one's only recourse is the language of poetry. Thus legends, myths, creation accounts, history. All are no more than stories shaped to justify the present appearance of things.

Only the dead should be certain of anything.

Kruppe wonders now, in the presentsight, as it were – or is it is? – what pedestrian activities or seemingly innocuous events will, in the hindsight of the future, be seen to be foreshadowings of the grievous event which may, or may not, come to pass, and which, by the forewarning, may thusly be headed off.

Ware the cold, human. Ware the ice that grips. The frost that silences.

When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten

I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane

When you do not recognize the wrongs of the past, the future takes its revenge. -Author forgotten.

Reaching out for companionship – for a human touch – is not a mistake. Withholding such a thing is the mistake.

Memories are not the truth of the past. We sculpt them to suit our images of our present selves. And, in any case, the truth of then is not the truth of now.