“It all seemed like madness, but was madness anything other than desperation blended with hope?”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 270)
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“Prophecy is first and foremost a self-serving gift.”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 38, “Loose Ends” (p. 354)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 7, “Parental Disappointment” (p. 85)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 8, “Venue and Vision” (p. 98)
“There will be paperwork, no government action can occur without it, but that can come later.”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 38, “Loose Ends” (p. 354)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 4, “Solutions in Memory” (p. 53)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 171)
“I’m not accusing you of anything, but we both have studied too much history to ignore coincidence.”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 170)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 38, “Loose Ends” (pp. 362-363; ellipses represent elisions of descriptive sections)
“I mean, sure, like all prophecy the wording is vague.”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 2, “Possibilities and Myths” (p. 27)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 17, “Dead Voices” (p. 171)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 7, “Parental Disappointment” (p. 84)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 38, “Loose Ends” (p. 354)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 24, “Dead to Dead” (pp. 230-231)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 12, “Ancestral Lands” (p. 119)
“We’ve met, and it wasn’t the highlight of my being dead.”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 29, “Choice and Sacrifice” (p. 265)
“I’m dead, Jorl. You can’t tell me what to do.”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 2, “Possibilities and Myths” (p. 24)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 18, “One-Sided Conversation” (p. 176)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 32, “Ghost in the Machine” (p. 298)
“Was all of the universe a fixed game, if one only knew where and how to look?”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 27, “Blind Endgame Beginning” (p. 251)
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 18, “One-Sided Conversation” (p. 175)
She laughed in his face. “You can see it that way if you like. The weak usually do, if they see it at all. But you disappoint me. Despite your study of history, you fail to understand power. It’s obvious you never will...There’s really only one choice you ever have to make in any act of creation. Will you be the instrument or the artist? If you’re only now coming to realize that you’ve been a tool all your life, there’s no one to blame for it but yourself. If you don’t like that state of affairs, then act! Impose your will upon the world and walk your own path. If you don’t, you’ll just end up being a token in someone else’s game; you’ll continue to be used as they see fit. That’s how the universe works. You don’t have to like it, but you’d do well to get used to it.”...
“No, maybe that’s the way the world looks once you’ve already decided to take your path. Or maybe it’s just you’re so jaded, or you’ve bought into your own delusions. I don’t know which, and I don’t care. Those aren’t the only choices: use of be used. There is more than being tyrant or servant. I reject both options and I reject you. You’ve been dead for centuries, Margda, it’s about time you accepted that.”
Source: Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard (2015), Chapter 38, “Loose Ends” (pp. 362-363; ellipses represent elisions of descriptive sections)
