‘I can guard your life to the best of my ability. But no-one but you can guard your honour. It is something no man – or woman – can take. Honour can only be surrendered.’
– Talisman, to Zhusai, The Legend of Deathwalker
‘I can guard your life to the best of my ability. But no-one but you can guard your honour. It is something no man – or woman – can take. Honour can only be surrendered.’
– Talisman, to Zhusai, The Legend of Deathwalker
‘Words are all we have to describe how we feel, what we need from one another. Without them how would we teach the young, or express our hopes for future generations to read?’
– Sieben, to Druss, The Legend of Deathwalker
‘My father told me that a man is lucky if in his life he can count on at least two good friends. He maintained that a man with many friends had to be either rich or stupid, and I think that is largely true. In all my life I have had only one friend, and that is you.’
– Sieben, to Druss, The Legend of Deathwalker
‘Any good that I may do, let me do it now, for I may not pass this way again.’
– A quotation from an ancient writing, The Legend of Deathwalker
‘A man must believe something. Otherwise we are merely shifting grains of sand, blown by the wind.‘
– Talisman, to Gorkai, The Legend of Deathwalker
‘My father told me never to be a part of anything that lacked honour. He once said to me that there was no greater satisfaction for a man than to be able to look in a mirror while shaving, and be proud of what he saw.‘
– Premian, to Jomil, The Legend of Deathwalker
‘True love is rare. Take it where you find it. That is all I have to say.‘
– Gorkai, to Talisman, The Legend of Deathwalker