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Robert Paul „Tad” Williams – amerykański pisarz science fiction i fantasy, najbardziej znany jako autor trylogii Pamięć, Smutek i Cierń oraz cyklu Inny świat. W listopadzie 2004 ukazał się pierwszy tom jego nowej trylogii – Shadowmarch. Przez długi czas mieszkał w miejscowości Palo Alto. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Marzec 1957
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“Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 20, “Travelers and Messengers” (p. 639).

“Empires were like seawalls, he thought sadly, even those which embodied the best of hopes. The tide of chaos beat at them, and as soon as no one was shoring up the stones any more…”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 6, “The Circle Narrows” (p. 150).

“There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 24, “The Graylands” (p. 544).

“Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 32, “Northern Tidings” (p. 516).

“Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 8, “On Sikkihoq’s Back” (p. 188).

“Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 12, “Six Silver Sparrows” (p. 177).

“Things are not always as old songs tell them to be—especially when it is concerning dragons.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 8, “On Sikkihoq’s Back” (p. 176).

“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.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 9, “Cold and Curses” (p. 237).

“The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 9, “Pages in an Old Book” (p. 301).

“Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. “You cannot catch three fish with two hands,” the little man often said.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 24, “The Graylands” (p. 540).

“If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 8, “Nights of Fire” (p. 255).

“Ambitious men never believe others aren’t the same.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 30, “A Thousand Nails” (p. 484).

“In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 15, “A Meandering of Ink” (p. 357).

“No charm is proof against a dagger in the back.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 40, “The Green Tent” (p. 677).

““Thank you, Duke,” the troll said seriously. “May your god be blessing us indeed. We go into unknown places.”
“As do all mortals,” Josua added. “Sooner or later.””

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 34, “Forgotten Swords” (p. 567).

“As with all dwellings,” she said, “of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house—not the doors, not the walls.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 25, “Petals in a Wind Storm” (pp. 626-627).

““Do you get tired, singing?” she asked.
Gan Itai laughed quietly. “Does a mother grow tired raising her children? Of course, but it is what I do.””

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 23, “Deep Waters” (p. 591).

“She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 6, “The Sea-Grave” (p. 185).

“You have something that might be more use to me than either gold or power—something that in fact brings both in its train.”
“And what is that?”

The count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”
Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 21, “The Frightened Ones” (p. 491).

“She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 2, “Chains of Many Kinds” (p. 71).

“Are these things you all say magical charms to chase me away? If so, they do not seem to be working.”

Źródło: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 20, “Travelers and Messengers” (p. 636).

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