Judith Tarr Quotes

“Peace.”

Judith Tarr

Gerbert rolled the word on his tongue. “Is that what it is? I’d been calling it happiness.”
Source: Ars Magica (1989), Chapter 16 (p. 196)

“Now there was sophistry. A mage was a perilous beast, but a mage who was also a logician and a theologian was deadly enough to outface the devil himself.”

Judith Tarr

Source: Ars Magica (1989), Chapter 19 (p. 234)

“May God preserve us from an honest pope.”

Judith Tarr

Source: Ars Magica (1989), Chapter 15 (p. 184)

“I am asking you to help me. Our mutual master would stride naked into the desert, trusting in God and in his own brilliance to shield him from the sun. But the desert knows only that it is. Neither gods nor cleverness mean anything to it.”

Judith Tarr

Source: Ars Magica (1989), Chapter 8 (p. 89)

“You are a fool, sir priest. Ignorance may excuse you. It will certainly kill you.”

Judith Tarr

Source: Ars Magica (1989), Chapter 2 (p. 18)