💬 Quotes

"The rule of no realm is mine, but all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care."

"Well, I'm back."

"My life was to be a secret. Not a hidden thing, but a silence kept in the middle of a scream."

"A king who cannot trust his own blood is a king who must always look over his shoulder."

"But the Skill is not a tool to be picked up and put down. It is a voice that calls to you, and once you have heard it, you can never truly be deaf to it again."

"To be a catalyst is not to be a king. It is to be the spark that sets the forest fire, regardless of whether the fire is needed or not."

"We are all lonely, Fitz. Some of us just have the sense to admit it."

"Kindness is a dangerous thing for a man who is meant to be a blade. A blade should have no heart to be broken."

"A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to one's life."

"You can listen to silence, Reuven. I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own."

"The world kills us who are helpless, and we suffer for it. But that is not your business, Reuven. It is enough that a person learns how to suffer."

"I don't know what I'm going to be. I just know that I'm going to be someone who will have to give a lot of himself to others."

"Things are not always what they seem to be, Reuven. We must look beneath the surface to find the truth."

"A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he sees together the dramatic and the practical. He is in a world which is fully six thousand years old, and yet he hears the cry of the infant."

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts..."

"Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button."

"The Japanese were always more refined. They kept their body-chops clean, functional, and very nearly invisible."

"You're still the same little cowboy you always were. You just got a better interface."

"Fast is better than good, and good is better than thorough, but thorough is better than dead."