T.C. Edge > Quotes

“Unfortunately, telling me not to worry is like telling someone not to breathe. It's impossible, and is my default setting.”
― T.C. Edge, War at the Wall

“Wasn't wisdom, in itself, merely an ability to listen, judge, and discern a conclusion based on the available evidence?”
― T.C. Edge, The Song of the First Blade

“under the meagre allotment of light. She comes towards me with a rising smile. “I lost track of time,” I say. “Well, that’s all well and good”
― T.C. Edge, Hybrid

“A man fighting for his wife is worth ten fighting for nothing.”
― T.C. Edge, War at the Wall

“You have to accept the situation as it is, and accept there will be casualties. That's what happens in war. Innocent people die. The world grieves, but it moves on.”
― T.C. Edge, City of Stone

“The tide is turning...we might just have a chance.”
― T.C. Edge, War at the Wall

“To seek greatness for greatness’s sake would be a selfish motivation.”
― T.C. Edge, The Winds of War

“He wasn’t likely to master the Windblade by training casually or only when struck with inspiration, was he? No, he had to slog.”
― T.C. Edge, The Winds of War

“The world may have changed, but teenagers never will. All long melancholic stares and silences.”
― T.C. Edge, Variant

“We've got plenty of others, don't worry." Don't worry. He seems to say that a lot. Kinda makes me feel the opposite...”
― T.C. Edge, Variant

“It's amazing what the power of propaganda and lies can do.”
― T.C. Edge, City of Stone

“Remember, we aren't always gifted at school, but may have a whole treasure trove of wonders to unlock within.” A murmuring sounds around the room, which”
― T.C. Edge, The Watchers of Eden

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― T.C. Edge, Prodigy

“I was never born to be free, not of these shackles one cannot see.”
― T.C. Edge, The Song of the First Blade

“You see the world only from your own vantage, Amron. You see the great light of war, the nobility in it, the triumph. But every light that shines makes a shadow, and in that shadow, people suffer.”
― T.C. Edge, The Shadow of Dread: The Bladeborn Saga, Book Six

“Now isn’t that better? Is not a smile a touch of light, ushered from the soul?”
― T.C. Edge, The Shadow of Dread: The Bladeborn Saga, Book Six

“Hope can kill,” Marian told her. "It keeps people rooted to perilsome places long after they should leave." "And bravery too," offered Roark, a half horse behind them. "Courage is the biggest killer of all. In every war, in every land, thousands die by its hand.”
― T.C. Edge, Ghost of the Shadowfort

“We lie there for a moment and stare into each others' eyes. And in that moment I realise that I cannot live without him.”
― T.C. Edge, War at the Wall

“Elyon couldn't help but smile. He wasn't quite drunk, but was inebriated enough to not take things too seriously.”
― T.C. Edge, The Song of the First Blade

“Emeric caught a glimpse of silver armour, enamelled brown and black at the shoulders and chest, a great thicket of beard atop a neck so thick the armourers had baulked when it came time to make a gorget to fit it. Mooton Blackshaw was a fearsomely large man, but that neck…there was nothing like it. He gave a laughing bellow as he entered the fray, monstrously quick for such a brute, a huge smile splitting his wild hairy face. The first swing of his greatsword took a dragonknight at the waist, cutting right through him and parting top from bottom. The second came down so hard and true it parted the captain lengthways instead, from crown to groin. Emeric watched as the body peeled apart, right side and left side falling opposite ways as gore and organs tumbled out, steaming, to splash bloodily into the mud.”
― T.C. Edge, The Shadow of Dread: The Bladeborn Saga, Book Six

“The longest day of our lives was over. We had to turn from it now, and make sure such a day never came again. To look forward, not backwards. To turn to hope and not dismay.”
― T.C. Edge, Pathfinder

“She loves you, my friend. Many would call you blessed for that. To have captured the heart of a beautiful princess.” “Many others would call me unworthy, and all of them would be right.”
― T.C. Edge, The Winds of War

“When I wake I think of my mother. It's like that every day. When someone you love is dying, you'll be just the same. She sleeps next door to me, in the room she once shared with my father. I wish most days that he was still here to care for her. I wish most days that I could remember more about him; the sound of his voice, the way he looked when he smiled.”
― T.C. Edge, The Watchers of Eden