Tad Williams - Suddenly Quotes

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You can never tell when princes will get squinty on you. You can never tell when they might suddenly feel their blood and go all royal.

Tad Williams

She had been dressed in her sky-blue gown and had been suddenly almost terrible in her completeness—so different from the ragged serving girl who had slept on his shoulder. And yet, the very same girl had been inside that blue dress.

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Only the mercenaries were here by choice. To Simon, the minds of men who would come to this of their own will were suddenly as incomprehensible as the thoughts of spiders or lizards—less so, even, for the small creatures of the earth almost always fled from danger. These were madmen, Simon realized, and that was the direst problem of the world: that madmen should be strong and unafraid, so that they could force their will on the weak and peace-loving. If God allowed such madness to be, Simon could not help thinking, then He was an old God who had lost His grip.

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Is this being in love? he suddenly wondered? It was nothing like the ballads he had heard sung—this was more irritating than uplifting.

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