‘It is not a crime to be frightened. I am frightened. Diagoras is frightened. Anyone with any intelligence would be frightened. Fear is necessary. It is there to keep us alive; to warn us to avoid danger.’
– Skilgannon, to Rabalyn, White Wolf
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‘You ever read Plutarch? Greek. Clever man. He pointed out that great empires are not destroyed by great events. It’s always the small, seemingly insignificant things that cause worlds to crumble.’
– Sgt Don Dodds, to Detective Constable Ian Sunley, White Knight Black Swan
‘Life is to be lived, boy. Without danger there is no life.’
– Gwalchmai, to Fell, Ironhand’s Daughter
‘My happiness is not in the gift of others. I will be happy, or I will not be happy. No man will supply it, or deprive me of it.’
– Andromache, to Odysseus, Lord of the Silver Bow
‘The man who never made a mistake never made anything. But learn from it.’
– The driver, to a boy, Rhyming Rings
‘I keep being told there’s a paradise for them that believes, but I’m sort of hoping there’s a paradise for them that don’t know.’
– Con Griffin, to himself, Wolf in Shadow
‘Strength and weakness, my friend, often seem as close as husband and wife. We are strong because we are proud. We are weak because our pride never allowed us to grow.’
– Agisaleus, to Xenophon, Lion of Macedon
‘None of us is perfect. At least you tried to walk the road.’
– Jon Shannow, to The Parson, The Last Guardian
‘There is a limit to the power of any single man – even a hero.’
– Eriatha, to Connavar, Sword in the Storm
‘You cannot eradicate evil, for without it how would we judge what is good? And if there is no greed, no lust, no baleful desires, what has a man achieved who becomes good? There would then be no mountains to climb.’
– Pendarric, to Ruth, Wolf in Shadow