No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of words spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the moveme...
Power does not make safe. History murders the children of weak rulers.
No, Leweth. You fled to remember. You fled to conserve all the ways your wife had moved you, to shield the ache of her loss from the momentum of others. You fled to make a bulwark of your misery.
Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
Nau-Cayûti’s eyes gleamed like bared teeth in the gloom.
Interruption is weakness, young Kellhus. It arises from the passions and not from the intellect. From the darkness that comes before. I understand, Pragma. The cold eyes peered through him and saw thi...
Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it’ll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.
The hot glare of evening winked into the chill glow of dusk in a heartbeat
Piety was simple, and the World, woefully complex. What was virtuous, what was holy: these were verities that only the simple and the enslaved could know with certainty.
While waiting for the hidden machinery of messengers and secretaries to relay his request, Achamian wandered into an adjoining courtyard, struck by the other immensities that framed his present circum...
If you find yourself taken unawares by someone you thought you knew, recall that the character revealed is as much your own as otherwise.
The genius of most men lay in finding reasons after their actions. The heart was ever self-serving, especially when the beliefs served involved sacrifice.
You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those interests were called truths.
That’s the horrible fact of sinners. We’re indistinguishable from the righteous.
Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.
Master, Malowebi once asked, what is the path to truth? Ah, little Malo, old Zabwiri had replied, the answer is not so difficult as you think. The trick is to learn how to pick out fools. Look for tho...
Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty.
Screens of tumbling water, breaking the world beyond them into glittering lines and smeared shadows. Kellhus had ceased trying to penetrate them.Power, Anasûrimbor Moënghus said, is always power over....
Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.
Fools can be trusted precisely because they are fools. Their agendas rarely intersect with your own.
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