Quotes by 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.”

“You are only a prisoner when you surrender.”

“Even the king's Erkynguard might have wished to be elsewhere, rather than here on this killing ground where duty brought them and loyalty prisoned them. Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To...”

“A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.”

“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...”

“Dear DiaryWent out shopping today. Picked up half a dozen sheep, two pigs, and a princess. The sheep are rather depressingly thin, the pigs and princess only slightly less so. Dear DiaryWent out sh...”

“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 complicat...”

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

“After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profoun...”

“Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the womans tongue? What good was beauty a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless if it cloaked such a viperous soul?”

“...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.”

“It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...”

“She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.”

“Tangaloor, fire-brightFlame-foot, farthest walkerYour hunter speaksIn need he walksIn need, but never in fear.”

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

“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 wha...”

“Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.”

“I haven't met that many women, human or angelic, who actually like to drive. In my experience they seem to be much more pragmatic about the whole thing than we are. For most males, driving is an ex...”

“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?”

“-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 th...”