“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
“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
“Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence.” ― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith
“It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.” ― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm
“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
“No driven man hears unwanted counsel.” ― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial
“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
“Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.” ― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.” ― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm
“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
“An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.” ― 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
“Show me a hero and I’ll show you a man enslaved by his competence.” ― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith
“It’s tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.” ― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm
“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
“No driven man hears unwanted counsel.” ― Janny Wurts, Initiate's Trial
“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
“Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.” ― Janny Wurts, The Curse of the Mistwraith
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.” ― Janny Wurts, To Ride Hell’s Chasm
“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
