135 Quotes by Tad Williams

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build – but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

Yes, look,” said Martine. “The Other has played his knight.

Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.

When you were old, did your memories crowd out your other thoughts? Or did you lose them – your childhood, your hated enemies, your friends?

I’m pretty much a cat that way. Scratch my stomach, and I’ll purr at you, but I’ll want to gut you with my claws even more than if you’d ignored me.

I’m tired of being lost and I’m tired of dying, so I’m going to try something different this time.

Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: ’what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.

Jongleur’s eyelids slid up and he turned to regard them. Renie wondered if her own sim face would register a guilty flush. “If you have the energy to whisper like schoolchildren,” he said, “then you no doubt have the strength to begin walking again.” He pushed himself upright and began to limp down the path.

During its timeless hours of movement and inspection, as it floated on the number-winds and learned from their shape and force, it had become aware of something else, something so far from the conceptual map of the environment it had originally been given as to briefly constitute a new danger to the Nemesis program’s logical integrity.