“ The dark is generous. Its first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting… Matthew Woodring Stover
“ The dark is generous, and it is patient. It is the dark that seeds cruelty into justice, that drips contempt into compassion, that poisons love with grains of doubt. The dark can be patient, because t… Matthew Woodring Stover
“ In the distant reaches of his memory, he found a lesson of Yoda’s, from one long solstice night, deep in the jungle near Dagobah’s equator. When to the Force you truly give yourself, all you do expres… Matthew Woodring Stover
“ Last name’s just for people who want you to be impressed by their parents. I Matthew Woodring Stover
“ A last name’s just for people who want you to be impressed by their parents. I Matthew Woodring Stover
“ Разумният човек се опитва да се приспособи към света. Неразумният - да приспособи света към себе си. Затова човешкият прогрес се дължи на неразумните. Matthew Woodring Stover
“ What distinguishes a flower from a weed is only—and exactly—this: the choice of the gardener Matthew Woodring Stover
“ It is a truism that when one is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The glory of art is that it can show this proverbial hammer how everything looks to a screwdriver--and to a plowshare, and to an… Matthew Woodring Stover
“ Universe. Tan’elKoth’s tone remained dry and precise, but his face grew ever more grim. Chambaraya is, one might say, a smaller knot of mind within the Worldmind: what the elves call T’nnalldion. Thro… Matthew Woodring Stover
“ Okay, maybe I don't have to solve every problem with my fists...but every once in awhile, a situation arises that is substantially improved by the judicious application of force. Matthew Woodring Stover
“ What, like a giant self-help book? Building a Better You in Only Fourteen Thousand Rooms? Matthew Woodring Stover
“ So this is how liberty dies, she was saying to herself. With cheering, and applause. Matthew Woodring Stover
“ Now that it’s too late, now that I lie here dying on this bloodstained sand, I finally get it.I understand, now.I understand. I know what he meant. My father told me that to knowthe enemy is half the… Matthew Woodring Stover
“ The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to… Matthew Woodring Stover
“ Darkness is a knife that peels away the rind of what you think you know about yourself. The shades of your pretenses, the tones of your illusions, the layers of deception that glaze your life into the… Matthew Woodring Stover