Frasi di Tad Williams
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Robert Paul "Tad" Williams è uno scrittore statunitense, autore di diversi romanzi fantasy e di fantascienza, tra cui le serie Memory, Sorrow & Thorn, Otherland, Shadowmarch e Ordinary Farm Adventure e i romanzi autoconclusivi Il canto di Acchiappacoda e The War of the Flowers.

Nel luglio del 2006, Williams ha iniziato a pubblicare una miniserie di sei fumetti intitolata The Next. È programmata la realizzazione di una seconda serie dal titolo The Factory.Williams ha scritto inoltre Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Marzo 1957
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“Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 20, “Travelers and Messengers” (p. 639).

“Empires were like seawalls, he thought sadly, even those which embodied the best of hopes. The tide of chaos beat at them, and as soon as no one was shoring up the stones any more…”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 6, “The Circle Narrows” (p. 150).

“There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 24, “The Graylands” (p. 544).

“Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 32, “Northern Tidings” (p. 516).

“Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 8, “On Sikkihoq’s Back” (p. 188).

“Simon, there are more things you don’t know than there are things that I do know. I despair of the imbalance.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 12, “Six Silver Sparrows” (p. 177).

“Things are not always as old songs tell them to be—especially when it is concerning dragons.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 8, “On Sikkihoq’s Back” (p. 176).

“Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 9, “Cold and Curses” (p. 237).

“The last thing a drunkard loses, you see, is his cunning: it outlasts his soul by a long season.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 9, “Pages in an Old Book” (p. 301).

“Binabik had taught him to do only what he could at any given time. “You cannot catch three fish with two hands,” the little man often said.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 24, “The Graylands” (p. 540).

“If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 8, “Nights of Fire” (p. 255).

“Ambitious men never believe others aren’t the same.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 30, “A Thousand Nails” (p. 484).

“In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 15, “A Meandering of Ink” (p. 357).

“No charm is proof against a dagger in the back.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 40, “The Green Tent” (p. 677).

“As with all dwellings,” she said, “of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house—not the doors, not the walls.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 25, “Petals in a Wind Storm” (pp. 626-627).

““Do you get tired, singing?” she asked.
Gan Itai laughed quietly. “Does a mother grow tired raising her children? Of course, but it is what I do.””

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Stone of Farewell (1990), Chapter 23, “Deep Waters” (p. 591).

“She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 6, “The Sea-Grave” (p. 185).

“You have something that might be more use to me than either gold or power—something that in fact brings both in its train.”
“And what is that?”

The count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”
Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 21, “The Frightened Ones” (p. 491).

“She didn’t know which she liked less, having people tell lies about her or having people know the truth.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 2, “Chains of Many Kinds” (p. 71).

“Are these things you all say magical charms to chase me away? If so, they do not seem to be working.”

Origine: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 20, “Travelers and Messengers” (p. 636).

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