Quotes from work

The Curse of Chalion

“Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?”

“Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be.”

“The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know.”

“This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.”

“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.”

“I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.”

“I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”

“I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. If I decide you die, you will die when I choose, where I choose, by what means I choose, and you will never see the blow coming. (…) I don't duel. But if you seek to die like a bludgeoned steer, cross me again.”