Janny Wurts > Quotes

“When hope dies, you breathe it back to life again! No matter how long it takes, or what time's required to heal the wound. Disappointment will not last a lifetime unless you lie down and give in.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.”
― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith

“Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence.”
― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith

“The miracle left him dumbfounded, that his heart had not yet shirked its weary task of pumping his bored blood through his brain.”
― Janny Wurts, Grand Conspiracy

“How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?”
― Janny Wurts, Traitor's Knot

“Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.”
― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith

“The same sages also wrote that violence is the habit of the weak, the impotent and the fool.”
― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith

“Were you going to tell me you usually kiss your one-night trollops in private?"

He laughed. The free-ringing sound held a spark of pure pleasure, unforced and rich with surprise.”
― Janny Wurts, Grand Conspiracy

“It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.”
― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm

“My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning.”
― Janny Wurts, The Ships of Merior

“An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.”
― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm

“No driven man hears unwanted counsel.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.”
― Janny Wurts, The Ships of Merior

“Damn you," said Arithon. In a shattering change of mood, he was laughing. "You have it. But what's my word against the grandiloquent predictions of a maudlin and drunken prophet?"
"Maybe everything," Felirin finished gently. "You're too young to live without dreams.”
― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith

“Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can’t be lived without harm to others.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood.”
― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith

“Mockery is the sure mark of the cynic, unredeemed and cut off from salvation.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“All things were formed of energy, arrangements of bundled light that were subject to natural law. The awareness of this truth, defined to absolute perfection, granted the mage-trained their influence. To know a thing, to encompass its full measure in respect was to hold its secrets in mastery. Life-force was the basis of all power.”
― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith

“Truth, of itself, does not kill.”
― Janny Wurts, Peril's Gate

“The rebuke came, keen-edged. ‘Trusting the man is not the same thing as knowing what he’s about.”
― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm

“Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.”
― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm

“Hate has no ears.”
― Janny Wurts, Grand Conspiracy

“Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned, no matter how hard we try to live up to them.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.”
― Janny Wurts, Fugitive Prince

“I would sooner converse with a snake!" He side-stepped the clutter.

"Speak and have done. Even snakes prefer their choice of company.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“I shall try. At best, I am human. No less subject than any to mortal limits and fallible resource.”
― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial

“There’s an alternate view. That no man or woman alive is the disempowered victim of another’s degrading circumstance. Each is equipped to pursue their own fate. No one needs saving.”
― Janny Wurts, Stormed Fortress

“What is a flaw but a human mistake, or an ignorance that sees without options?”
― Janny Wurts, Peril's Gate

“There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.”
― Janny Wurts, Traitor's Knot

“There's a choice?"

"Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things.”
― Janny Wurts, Grand Conspiracy