135 Quotes by Tad Williams

Doctor Morgenes once told me that, in old Khand, they would kill the king's wives and concubines when he died, so that they could accompany him to the next life.""Dear Simon," [Miriamele] said. "I will leave word in my testament that they are not to kill you when I die.""And I will do the same for you, dear Miri. But you may feel free to leap into my grave, as long as it's your own idea.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.

In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me a chance, sweet Zoria, and I will be a rock for my people.

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

-You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.-Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things much anymore doesn't mean we don't know anything. 'If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!' If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink arse is more like it. Now are you going to shut your gob or not?

I don't know what to do,' he said at last. 'I don't know what will happen.''If you did, you would only be making a selection, not a choice.

Do not brood too much over what went before or worry too much over what is to come. Between those two is everything that matters--all that is.

He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.