“Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“All Kellhus could see of his father were two fingers and a thumb lying slack upon a bare thigh. The thumbnail gleamed.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“You’ve learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast. 'What lesson might that… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Screens of tumbling water, breaking the world beyond them into glittering lines and smeared shadows. Kellhus had ceased trying to penetrate them.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“I am a warrior of ages, Anasurimbor ... ages. I have dipped my nimil in a thousand hearts. I have ridden both against and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Sorweel: „Then how can we hope to resist him?“ Harweel: „With our swords and our shields. And when those fail us, with spit and… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
