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A well-aimed spear is worth three. -- Tad Williams
Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival. -- Tad Williams
What, you don't have a sofa gun? I thought everyone did. -- Tad Williams
What does that mean, 'real'? Amn't I real, you? If you cut me, do I not bleed? If you piss me off, will I not kick you up the arse? -- Tad Williams
It was frighteningly close to what he believed of his father at the worst moments - that he really was the kind of man who would send a letter signed "Sincerely, Cpl. Peter Vilmos" to someone he'd seen naked. -- Tad Williams
So that's what
one "yes," one "not sure," and one "I had had a dream about a bug. -- Tad Williams
A teenage girl creaming while she listens to some boy-band, a monk digging on the God he hears in Gregorian chants, or John fucking Coltrane himself climbing up into the sky on a staircase made of sixteenth notes, it's all the same. If it takes you there, it's good. -- Tad Williams
That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft. -- Tad Williams
Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman's tongue? What good was beauty - a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless - if it cloaked such a viperous soul? -- Tad Williams
Books are a form of magic - " the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, " - because they span time and distance more surely than any spell or charm. -- Tad Williams
And you, a king's daughter, who willingly gave herself to me - who brought me to her bed? Are you so high and pure?" She -- Tad Williams
These were madmen, Simon realized, and that was the direst problem of the world: that madmen should be strong and unafraid, so that they, could force their will on the weak and peace-loving. -- Tad Williams
To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John's kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind ... but isn't that what we always think? That all wars are useless - except the one we're fighting now? -- Tad Williams
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. -- Tad Williams
Barrick could only stand and watch them go, alone with the tribe of incomprehensible strangers who lived now in his blood and his thoughts. -- Tad Williams
I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates. -- Tad Williams
You are only a prisoner when you surrender. -- 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 only termite hills left but no bush? -- Tad Williams
I'm tired of being lost and I'm tired of dying, so I'm going to try something different this time. -- Tad Williams
If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God ... except for the aspirations of fallen angels ... -- Tad Williams
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. -- Tad Williams
It's always difficult when people compare me unfavorably with other contemporary writers. It's much easier when they use examples from earlier eras of fiction. Because then I can say, Well, I may not be talented, but at least I'm not DEAD. -- Tad Williams
Briony's ladies-in-waiting kept their distance, as though their mistress had some illness which might spread - and indeed she did, Briony thought, because unhappiness was ambitious. -- Tad Williams
But our own selves are like pearls, created by layer after layer of present laid over past until the original thing is completely hidden. -- Tad Williams
Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers. -- Tad Williams
Welcome, Simon, to the world of those who are every day condemned to thinking and wondering and never ever knowing with certainness. -- Tad Williams
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about. -- Tad Williams
Kind of like I suspect things are at night in the It's A Small World ride, when all the little figures come to life and whisper about how they'd like to torture and murder all those screaming children and grinning grown-ups in the boats. -- Tad Williams
Has everyone gone mad?"
"Everyone was mad already, my lady," Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. "It is merely that the times have brought it out in them. -- Tad Williams
Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again touched the feeling from that long ago day, being alone but not lonely, of being solitary yet sufficient. -- Tad Williams
He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had -- Tad Williams
Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead. -- Tad Williams
Sometimes people need reasons for things, even when there are no reasons. That's what makes people believe in conspiracies or religions - if there is any difference. The world is just too complicated, so they need simple explanations. -- Tad Williams
So we face our final hours ... and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories. -- Tad Williams
His virtual home showed none of the ostentation of others in the Brotherhood, no Gothic-fortress-perched-on-impossible-cliffs or Caligulean excesses of decor (usually accompanied by an equally Caligulean want of decorum.) -- Tad Williams
There were more problems with solitude than just being horny and bored. If you didn't have anyone to talk to for days on end, you didn't have anyone to let you know whether you were going nuts or not. -- Tad Williams
There's sense, he told himself. You build something and then you stay there. That's the way it's meant to be. Not this running here, running there, never see your blood-family or your home roofs for a year at a time. -- Tad Williams
Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men. -- Tad Williams
The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make. -- Tad Williams
If the bears don't get you, it's home. -- Tad Williams
COME AWAY, dreamer, come away. Soon you will witness things that only sleepers and sorcerers can see. Climb onto the wind and let it bear you - yes, it is a swift and frightening steed, but there are leagues and leagues to journey and the night is short. -- Tad Williams
Perhaps a heart was indeed like a piece of dry birchwood, and could only take fire and burn brightly once - that any fire that came after would be only an ember, smaller and cooler. -- Tad Williams
Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work. -- Tad Williams
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. -- Tad Williams
What's the light of Heaven look like on earth? Like sunlight streaming through clouds in the tackiest garage sale painting you ever saw. Really, it's so beautiful it's embarrassing. No subtlety whatsoever. -- Tad Williams
Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent. -- Tad Williams
The road to Heaven is paved with bullshit and busy work. -- Tad Williams
I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading. -- Tad Williams
We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take. -- Tad Williams
God gives us all youth, and the takes it away again. What have you gained to offset that loss? Patience? Perhaps a little wisdom? Then be patient, and perhaps you'll also be wise. (Miriamele) -- Tad Williams
Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me. -- Tad Williams
I thought ... I thought you might ... "
"Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving anymore, are you? < ...=""> You had a dry night's sleep, too, and you're no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed. -- Tad Williams
It's amazing the stupid things I say sometimes. I mean, you could start an entire branch of scientific research about the stuff I say that gets proved wrong while I'm still busy saying it. -- Tad Williams
You show her respect. That is a good thing," he said. "Too often it is that men think those who serve are doing it from inferiorness or weakness. -- Tad Williams
If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works. -- Tad Williams
Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs. -- Tad Williams
It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel ... -- Tad Williams
Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered. -- Tad Williams
Piglets and pawprints!" cried Eatbugs, then paused and looked quickly around. He leaned toward his companions. "Let's be off!" he added, his voice a conspiratorial whisper. -- Tad Williams
We tell lies when we are afraid ... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. -- Tad Williams
He was a figurehead - an aging CEO of his own family who only showed up for the board meetings and wondered how so much got done without him. -- Tad Williams
If you wish to carry a hungry weasel in your pocket, it is your choice. -- Tad Williams
What is it you want, fairy woman?" he asked at last. "I have dead men to burn and a siege to finish." Ayaminu -- Tad Williams
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. The -- Tad Williams
People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then? -- Tad Williams
I pray that I lose my voice before my tongue ever shames me. -- Tad Williams
As I said, Princess, I am a writer, and as all know, that is another name for a fool. -- Tad Williams
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it. -- Tad Williams
A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid. -- Tad Williams
I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones. -- Tad Williams
Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy. -- Tad Williams
As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney. -- Tad Williams
There is no such thing as an accident. That's what science is all about. ( ... ) There are only patterns we don't yet recognize. -- Tad Williams
They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers. -- Tad Williams
Stairs. This is Hell. Hell is stairs, was all Theo could think. I'd sell my soul for a goddamn elevator.
But I don't have a soul, do I? I'm some kind of fairy.
Okay, settle for an escalator, then. -- Tad Williams
You see, that is the secret of history, little Briony - who tells the last story. -- Tad Williams
Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce. -- Tad Williams
Stories are the things people use to give the universe a shape ... there is little difference between a folktale, a religous revelation, and a scientific theor -- Tad Williams
A part of me, of course, was reminding myself over and over and over again that I should never have tried to lie to the higher angels of the Ephorate. Hubris, the Greeks called that. "A dumbshit move," might be a more contemporary way of putting it. -- Tad Williams
Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all. -- Tad Williams
But a mouse can be brave. Small as they are, though, they learn it is wiser not to challenge the cat. -- Tad Williams
She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best. -- Tad Williams
Tangaloor, fire-bright
Flame-foot, farthest walker
Your hunter speaks
In need he walks
In need, but never in fear. -- Tad Williams
Something gurgled in his throat. It took a moment before he realized it was a scream bottled in his innards, a blast of misery trying to force its way out. -- Tad Williams
Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical. -- Tad Williams
Good stories will tell you that facing the lie is the worst terror of all. And there is no talisman or magic sword that is half so potent a weapon as truth -- Tad Williams
He shouldn't have had to die."
"Nobody should have to die," Miriamele said slowly. "Especially while they're still alive. -- Tad Williams
Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor. -- Tad Williams
Welcome to the Information Jungle. -- Tad Williams
Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once. -- Tad Williams
All people know the Greater Hunger ... It is the hunger for warmth, for family, for connection to the stars and the earth and other living things ... "
"For love?" Renie asked.
"Yes, I suppose that could be true. -- Tad Williams
Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all. -- Tad Williams
That is the problem with rumors," said Avin Brone. "It is very hard to prove that things are not true - much more difficult than proving they are. -- Tad Williams
Why were men so caught up with their honor, their solemn word, their promises?
Half the time the promises were never asked of them in the first place.
And yet the wars that were fought over such things, the hearts broken and the lands ruined..! -- Tad Williams
For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before. -- Tad Williams
Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words to describe what it promised. It was like a secret language he never forgot how to speak, a hometown he could always return to when he tired of what life was throwing at him. -- Tad Williams
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. -- Tad Williams
See, vodka, that's drinking. Beer - well, beer is just getting the inside of your mouth wet. -- Tad Williams
A man who will not listen carefully to advice honestly given is a fool. Of course, a man who blindly takes any advice he receives is a bigger fool. -- Tad Williams
The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst. -- Tad Williams
But remember this lesson, Simon, one fit for kings... or the sons of kings. Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious. -- Tad Williams
Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle! -- Tad Williams
You show me what someone listens to, I'll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.) -- Tad Williams
Those people who believe in previous lives always think they were dukes or queens or something, ignoring the fact that most people back then spent their whole lives up to their knees in shit before dying of toothless old age at thirty. -- Tad Williams
Piercing My Hearte there is A Golden Dagger; That is God
Piercing God's Hearte there is a Golden Needle; That is me -- Tad Williams
If your enemy comes to speak bearing a sword, open your door to him and speak, but keep your own sword at hand. If he comes to you empty-handed, greet him the same way. But if he comes to you bearing gifts, stand on your walls and cast stones down on him. -- Tad Williams
If we do not reach our hands will always be empty. -- Tad Williams
When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock. -- Tad Williams
Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific! -- Tad Williams
Were all these castle folk in their ornate finery no more than confused souls hiding inside costumes, as the hard shells of snails protected the helpless, naked things that lived within them? -- Tad Williams
Fear goes where it is invited. -- Tad Williams
God grant me a quick honorable death, Isgrimnur prayed, and never let me be one of those old fools who sits by the campfire telling the young men that things will never be as good as they once were. -- Tad Williams
and everywhere books, books, books, -- Tad Williams
One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal. -- Tad Williams
He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping. -- Tad Williams
stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression. -- Tad Williams
Now I end my death song. I give my farewell to mountain and sky. It has been good to be alive. -- Tad Williams
I know, I know, numbers are not what you're interested in, except those of you who are engineers. -- Tad Williams
Just get up. What's your name, kid?"
"G-man"
"I don't mean your codename down at the Dickhead Club. What does it say on your driver's license? -- Tad Williams
Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don't understand it. -- Tad Williams
Every time you open your mouth," Clarence said, "you just seem older and weirder. -- Tad Williams
A piece of writing is a trap," he said cheerily, "and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive - which is knowledge - alive forever. -- Tad Williams
But that is enough of such worrying. The river is waiting, and our hearts must be light, so we can faster travel. -- Tad Williams
If you are going to without trust. men tasks to do, then once they have proved themselves, you should let them get on without you standing over them. There is no point in giving responsibility wifh -- Tad Williams
He turned up the car radio and punched buttons until he found something loud and thumpingly exultant, some piece of jolly stupidity from AC/DC. -- Tad Williams
Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden. -- Tad Williams
I guess you don't want to leave copies of Genocide Illustrated out for the UPS guy to see.) -- Tad Williams
Part of manhood, I am thinking, is to ponder one's words before opening one's mouth. -- Tad Williams
Every man is the hero of his own song. -- Tad Williams
A proud man who could do more than he is asked to do. It is not good for the spirit. -- Tad Williams
When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush. -- Tad Williams
A man whose wisdom is true does not sit in waiting for the world to come at him piece by piece for proving its existence! -- Tad Williams
God shapes us with a hammer of pain on an anvil of duty. I cannot imagine what shape we will be when He is finished. -- Tad Williams
Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger. -- Tad Williams
For all the things we've seen ... my goodness, the world still has more to show us, doesn't it? -- Tad Williams
But sometimes when things go very wrong and even the highest are frightened, innocence is not enough for salvation. -- Tad Williams
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery. -- Tad Williams
Besides, there was always hope, wasn't there? -- Tad Williams