“When the gods would punish us, they answer our prayers.”
Del Rey p. 92
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Matthew Woodring Stover è uno scrittore statunitense.
È probabilmente meglio conosciuto per i suoi quattro romanzi ambientati nel mondo immaginario di Guerre stellari, tra cui la versione scritta dell'episodio III. Ha scritto diversi romanzi di tipo fantasy, tra cui Iron Dawn e Jericho Moon. Ha scritto un ciclo di storie di tipo ibrido fantasy/fiction con protagonista un eroe di nome Caine: The Acts of Caine.
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“When the gods would punish us, they answer our prayers.”
Del Rey p. 92
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
“A man shouldn't die with no understanding of why he's been murdered”
The Acts of Caine, Heroes Die (The Acts of Caine: Act of Violence) (1998)
Heroes Die (1998)
Contesto: It's customary, at times like this, to say a few words. A man shouldn't die with no understanding of why he's been murdered. I do not pride myself on my eloquence, and so I will keep this simple.
Mace Windu, p. 251
Shatterpoint (2004)
Contesto: It dawned on me then that Nick was proud of himself. Proud of what we had done. It may have been an unfamiliar feeling for him: that peculiarly delicious pride that comes from having taken a terrible risk to do something truly admirable. Of overcoming the instinct of self-presrvation: of fighting our fears and winning. It is the pride of discovering that one is not merely a bundle of reflexes and conditioned responses; that instead one is a thinking being, who can choose the right over the easy, and justice over safety.
(I.3) Del Rey, p. 75
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Contesto: "I respect what is repectable," Tan'elkoth replied. "To ask for respect where none has been earned is childish maundering. And what is repectable, in the end, save service? Even your idol Jefferson is, in the end, measured by how well he served the species. The prize of individualism--its goal--is self-actualization, which is only another name for vanity. We do not admire men for achieving self-actualization; we admire self-actualization when its end result is a boon to humanity."
(XII.7) Del Rey, p. 426
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Contesto: He had no idea what he should do now. Without destiny to guide him, he was lost in a vast, whistling darkness. Any direction he might choose was purely abitary; it would make no more sense, offer no more hope, than would sitting still. Which offered neither sense nor hope at all.
For a mornachist, history is a struggle of classes of economic civil war. An agriculturalist sees the dynamic of populations, land, and availability of food; a philosopher might speak of the will to power or the will to sythesis; a theologian of the will of God.
(II.2) Del Rey, p. 100
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
“Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state”
(I.3) Del Rey, p. 74
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
“The problem with happy endings," Tan'elkoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over.”
(I.3) Del Rey, p. 89
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
“All true stories end in death.”
(X.6) Del Rey, p. 380
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
“This is the most valuable lesson one can teach a fanatic: that fanaticism is self-defeating.”
Vergere, p. 291
Traitor (2002)