Four Roads Cross
Max Gladstone
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Humans need to dream, you know. It's how the mind breathes.”
“You wonder at power yoked to service. You wonder because you have come into power young and are learning that power comes through the acceptance of a bond. But if to have power is to be bound, then what is power?”
“What can we do in the face of fear? What else, came the whispered reply, but love and trust.”
“The night’s triumph is inevitable as prophecy, but wet air holds the day’s heat, sweaty fingers tangled in solar curls.”
“Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God.”
“You people get so closed up inside those little brains. Their structure changes in response to thought, you know, like your muscles respond to use. The used parts bulk up. Bad training develops uneven strength; it takes time and painful work to balance unbalanced muscles.”
“Wings flower-petal-spread And teeth and claws the thorns I grow to seek my Mother’s light Her flesh my flesh, her skin my form—”
“We’re so alone, she thought. We touch one another too firmly and wound or break, or else we pull away. We tell stories in which we are lone noble heroes, until we stand face-to-face with a goddess and see something older and bigger than each of us because it is each of us, our souls touching, the subtle interaction at a distance of minds with minds, when we reach the edge of loneliness and teeter uncertain at the brink.”
“Were the words his, or did they belong to Kos? What was he, anyway, but a piece of this burning web spun from a city’s dreams? He joined to Him by faith, by the burning of incense, by prayer, by kneeling before a fire. Where did Abelard end and God begin? They grew from each other.”
“The weak-willed gratified themselves with needless displays of power.”
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Book Keywords:
gods, faith, willpower, power, weakness
