Frank P. Ryan > Quotes

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”
― Frank P. Ryan, The Snowmelt River

“different words, there are times when you have to trust to your heart and instinct. I must ask you also to trust your hearts and instincts.”
― Frank P. Ryan, The Tower of Bones: The Three Powers Book 2: An Epic Fantasy of Irish Mythology

“Strangest of all are the suggestions that Tír is linked to a sister world, variously known as Geb, Jörd, Gaia – or even Terra, a name akin to that of our world, Tír. Manifold are the references to this sister world in the legends of Tír, notably those of the warrior races such as Fir Bolg and Shee. In both traditions the two worlds are spoken of as twins – as if worlds like infants, might share a single cosmic birth. Communication and even passage between worlds is said to be possible through Dromenon or the power of the Fáil. This same passage is said to have allowed the seeds of war to be carried from one world to the other, though such history is uncertain and largely denied. Most intriguing is the suggestion that the fates of the two worlds might also be entwined, as is occasionally seen, even dramatically so, in living twins. The implications are unknown, perhaps even unknowable. Yet one is tempted to question if the answers to the afflictions of one world might be discovered in the struggles and tribulations of the other? – Ussha De Danaan: last High Architect of Ossierel”
― Frank P. Ryan, The Sword of Feimhin

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― Frank P. Ryan, The Sea of Stars: Book 2 of The Twins of Moon

“It is rumoured from sources older than history that once these were happy lands, fruitful and bounteous as any heart might desire. The Arinn were the masters then, a race of magicians of paralleled knowledge – but that very knowledge rather than wisdom was their undoing. In their arrogance, they wrought a malengin wondrous beyond understanding, yet so perilous that even today few other than the very wise or the very foolish dare utter its name. In such folly lay the seeds of our tormented world… - Ussha De Danaan: last High Architect of Ossierel”
― Frank P. Ryan, The Snowmelt River

“Other rumours, equally venerable, tell a different – that long before the age of mortals there was a great war between the dragons and a brutal race of titans. So lasting and terrible was this conflict that the bones of the slain are still scattered over the blighted lands. It is said that the titans eventually won this war to bring to an end of the Age of Dragons. This ushered in the Age of Tyranny, when mortals served no purpose other than enslavement, a tyranny that was ended by the coming of the Arinn.
If such be true, deliverance surely came with a price. – Ussha De Danaan: last High Architect of Ossierel”
― Frank P. Ryan, The Tower of Bones

“her childhood. She knew now that she had let her own fears block out the possibility of anyone other than Magio and Gran from knowing that she actually existed. Now, looking back, it seemed a strange thing to have done, something too foolish to comprehend. And yet her instincts had been so overwhelming – even if they had been brought about by some kind of irrational fear. ‘I know I did, Quimbre.”
― Frank P. Ryan, The Sea of Stars: Book 2 of The Twins of Moon