The Great Ordeal
R. Scott Bakker
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. —”
“more than anything, it was ignorance that delivered conviction beyond the pale of disputation. Ignorance of questions. Ignorance of alternatives. No tyranny was so complete as blindness.”
“Where hard life makes some maudlin to the point of weeping at mere memory, it grants others a curious immunity to suffering. Like the slaves who work the charcoal pits, their skin grows hardened to the pinch of fire and coals, insensible to burning things.”
“Power does not make safe. History murders the children of weak rulers.”
“No intellect is orphaned, despite all the foundling hearts. All sons are born stranded because all fathers are sons. Every child is told, even those suckled on the teats of wolves.”
“What did they know of motherhood, the mad miracle of finding your interior drawn from you, clinging and bawling and giggling and learning everything there was to learn anew?”
“Hope is ever the greatest luxury of the helpless, the capacity to suppose knowledge that circumstances denied.”
“to observe a thing always is to observe a thing not at all.”
“the hot glare of evening winked into the chill glow of dusk in a heartbeat”
“She acted for reasons she knew not, spoke words she did not understand, pursuing ends that she could neither fathom nor bear. The”
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