Edward W. Robertson > Quotes

“One of the advantages to getting older, though: while you might not change all that much, you at least got to know yourself. The real you, minus the bullshit and wishful thinking.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Breakers Series: Books 4-6

“What a terrible thing, when what's right is overruled by what's popular,”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“I wonder what's killed more men over the years. Wild animals? Or masculine taunts?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“It's better to know nothing than to have to unlearn false wisdom.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Most faiths, he thought, could stand to learn the virtue of keeping their devotion to themselves.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“Fortunately, when I was in the palace, I got some practice stabbing him in the heart. This time, I was much better at it. And did it ten times instead of once. Then cut off his head." "I always thought the secret of your success was your thoroughness.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Black Star

“Am I too blunt? If the truth is too hard to swallow, should I feed you soft lies?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Silver Thief

“How would we even know who to help?" "Easy rule of thumb: you help the side whose village is being burned. In all the wars we've seen, have you ever known the village-burners to be on the right side of justice?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Red Sea

“Have the Minister's soldiers been on the march?" "Probably. Given that they're soldiers, and marching is what soldiers do, if only to impress their captains.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Black Star

“What form of speech is better than a question? A statement is certain. A question is fluid. To make progress, isn't it better to flow than to sit?”
― Edward W. Robertson

“All set?" Cally said when he showed up twenty minutes later.
"Yes."
"Good. Overconfidence is a strong ally. People are always surprised when you try to do things you
can't.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“If emotions were created for social creatures, did they cease to exist as soon as society disappeared?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Breakers Series #1-3

“They may look like dog vomit, but they ain't dumb.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Breakers

“The woman laughed, shoulders bouncing. "I think the gods eat suffering. That's why they've put it everywhere you look: so anywhere they go, they'll always be fed.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Silver Thief

“Overconfidence is a strong ally. People are always surprised when you try to do things you can't.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“would ask what you want carved on your grave. " "I would like it to say 'Why Do You Care Who Is Buried Here?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“The worst thing of all was very simple: the disruption of the illusion of safety. That if you were a good person who worked hard and stayed within the law, you'd always be okay.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Breakers Series #1-3

“Did anyone know anything at all, or finding times when the truth didn't suit them, had they all been repeating falsehoods and nonsense for so long they no longer remembered what was fact and what was invention?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“was sad to think how quickly things became lost. It was no wonder things were the way they were. Memories, people, your own self. You thought you'd always have them, that you'd be able to draw on them in times of need, but they slipped away like the days, gone before you knew it.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“But this was why you needed others: their brains operated differently. Frustratingly so, too often, but sometimes their shape of crazy was the perfect complement for your own.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Speech is a dangerously imprecise form of communication even when we try to be as exact as we can be. If we're sloppy on purpose who knows what disasters might come of it?”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“insulting your elders is a good way to ensure you'll never have the chance to become one.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“The old masters said if you met another Buddha on the road, you should kill him. All reality is an illusion: if you think you've found the incarnation of enlightenment, destroy that illusion on the spot. But the real world is real. Therefore, if you meet a bandit on the road, you should kill him. Anyone who seeks to make a bad world worse is a monster and an alien.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Breakers Series #1-3

“If you want to change the world for the good, you have to be willing to put on the mask of the villain.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“hunger turns stones into soup.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“Your loyalty is all you have. If you forfeit that, you burn the forest of your soul.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“So much has happened, boys," he said, draping one hand over the back of a chair and pointing at them with the other. "Came back and the place was a battlefield. I rallied a few of the fellows”
― Edward W. Robertson, The White Tree

“It was like old people were terrified of dying without duplicating their minds on those who would replace them.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy

“That was the problem; you always had that choice. It was a choice most people didn’t take seriously. They understood that, theoretically speaking, other parts of the world existed and that they could, in and of a universe, move to that place and begin a new life, away from their present troubles. Everyone got that. But people thought about this the same way that they thought about a surprise inheritance from a wealthy, bachelor uncle they never knew they had. Could it happen? Of course! Would it happen to them? No, no, of course not. The idea was a fantasy, nothing to be taken seriously, let alone plan around.”
― Edward W. Robertson, The Black Star

“dew. Their feet scuffed the dark sidewalks. Raymond had two moods now. Despair came with no warning, rogue waves of helplessness that sucked him out on a rippling tide. When it receded, he was left with a dry and”
― Edward W. Robertson, Breakers