Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
Contesto: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”
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“She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.”
Tad Williams libro River of Blue Fire
Origine: River of Blue Fire
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Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988)
“… Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.”
Tad Williams libro City of Golden Shadow
Origine: City of Golden Shadow
Tad Williams libro City of Golden Shadow
Origine: City of Golden Shadow
“Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart.”
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 4, “The Silent Child” (p. 145).
“Fear goes where it is invited.”
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 7, “Spreading Fires” (p. 171).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 31, “The Councils of the Prince” (p. 502).
“Nothing is without cost. There is a price to all power, and it is not always obvious.”
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 10, “King Hemlock” (p. 142).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 13, “The Fallen Sun” (p. 314).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 13, “The Nest Builders” (p. 406).
“We trolls say: “Make Philosophy your evening guest, but do not let her stay the night.””
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 17, “Binabik” (p. 260).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 724).
Morgenes leaned forward, waggling the leather-bound volume under Simon’s nose. “A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever. The more books you have,” the doctor waved an all-encompassing hand about the room, “the more traps, then the better chance of capturing some particular, elusive, shining beast—one that might otherwise die unseen.”
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 7, “The Conqueror Star” (pp. 92-93).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 12, “Raven’s Dance” (p. 392).
“There are no promises in life, Sludig, but it seems to me smarter to take fewer chances.”
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 25, “Petals in a Wind Storm” (p. 640).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 9, “Cold and Curses” (p. 211).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 37, “Jiriki’s Hunt” (p. 619).
“Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere.”
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 37, “Jiriki’s Hunt” (p. 629).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 14, “A Crown of Fire” (p. 342).
“It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.”
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 15, “Lake of Glass” (p. 469).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 17, “Bonfire Night” (p. 540).
“A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.”
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 1, “The Grasshopper and the King” (p. 12).
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 9, “Cold and Curses” (p. 207).
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