Matthew Stover: Man

“A man shouldn't die with no understanding of why he's been murdered”

Matthew Stover book Heroes Die

The Acts of Caine, Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine: Act of Violence) (1998)
Heroes Die (1998)
Context: It's customary, at times like this, to say a few words. A man shouldn't die with no understanding of why he's been murdered. I do not pride myself on my eloquence, and so I will keep this simple.

Understanding

“"I think that you are a very brilliant man. I think that you have more courage than you have ever guessed. I think that you truly care about this city, and the people in it. I think your cynicism is a fraud." "What-what-really, this is astonishing-" "I think that if you were truly as corrupt and venal as you pretend, you would be in the Senate."”

Matthew Stover book Shatterpoint

Mace Windu and Colonel Lorz Geptun
Shatterpoint (2004)

People , Courage , Fraud , Thinking

“The man did not move because only immobility could hurt more than motion: the man held himself still because to move might lessen his suffering, and that he could not bear. For him only pain had meaning.”

Matthew Stover book Blade of Tyshalle

(XII.1) Del Rey, p. 408
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)

Pain , Suffering , Hurt

“Mace stared at the man as though he'd never seen him before. And he hadn't: only now, finally, was he seeing him. An undistinguished little man: soft face and uncertain voice, shaky hands and allergies: an undistinguished little man who must have had resources of toughness that Mace could barely imagine.”

Matthew Stover book Shatterpoint

Mace Windu, p. 17
Shatterpoint (2004)

Imagination

“Caine was no longer the icon of evil, the Enemy of God, the author of all the world's ills. He had become simply what he was: a ruthless, amoral man, now beaten--crushed by the world, just like any other.”

Matthew Stover book Blade of Tyshalle

Blade of Tyshalle (2001)

God , World , Evil

“I think that you are a very brilliant man. I think that you have more courage than you have ever guessed. I think that you truly care about this city, and the people in it. I think your cynicism is a fraud.”

Matthew Stover book Shatterpoint

<br/k> "What-what-really, this is astonishing-" <br/k> "I think that if you were truly as corrupt and venal as you pretend, you would be in the Senate."
Mace Windu and Colonel Lorz Geptun
Shatterpoint (2004)

Courage , Fraud , Thinking , People

“It's customary, at times like this, to say a few words. A man shouldn't die with no understanding of why he's been murdered. I do not pride myself on my eloquence, and so I will keep this simple.”

Matthew Stover book Heroes Die

The Acts of Caine, Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine: Act of Violence) (1998)
Heroes Die (1998)

Time , Understanding