Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones…

“That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.”

— Tad Williams

“If we do not reach our hands will always be empty.”

— Tad Williams

“Im Schlamm fing es an, wie so vieles.”

— Tad Williams

“I'm tired of being lost and I'm tired of dying, so I'm going to try something different this time.”

— Tad Williams

“A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind of trap…

— Tad Williams

“He shouldn't have had to die." "Nobody should have to die," Miriamele said slowly. "Especially while they're still alive.”

— Tad Williams

“Fear goes where it is invited.”

— Tad Williams

“Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.”

— Tad Williams

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of…

— Tad Williams

“Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.”

— Tad Williams

“We call darkness our friend, but when the elders tell us stories of the Garden, they talk of the holy, unending light that was…

— Tad Williams

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

— Tad Williams

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be…

— Tad Williams

“How can you care for a rough man like me?' he asked me. 'How can you love a man who can bring you no…

— Tad Williams

“Piercing My Hearte there is A Golden Dagger; That is God Piercing God's Hearte there is a Golden Needle; That is me”

— Tad Williams