Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. Tad Williams More Quotes by Tad Williams More Quotes From Tad Williams THE NAME OF THE WIND has everything fantasy readers like, magic and mysteries and ancient evil, but it's also humorous and terrifying and completely believable. As with all the very best books in our field, it's not the fantasy trappings (wonderful as they are) that make this novel so good, but what the author has to say about true, common things, about ambition and failure, art, love, and loss. Tad Williams humorous book art Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush? Tad Williams nests cities world The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst. Tad Williams dream water men When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock. Tad Williams rocks knowing fall Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend to visit places we've never actually been to, discuss things that are just names as though they were as real as rocks or animals or something. Information Age - Hell it's the Imagination Age. We're living in our own minds. No, she decided as the plane began its steep descent, really we're living in other people's minds. Tad Williams real animal thinking I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones. Tad Williams choices stones trying Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs. Tad Williams stronger weakness dog Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men. Tad Williams funny-things men thinking She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best. Tad Williams shapes stories The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make. Tad Williams men war heaven He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder. Tad Williams wise heart men He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had Tad Williams losing-friends mets strange So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories. Tad Williams finals stories faces Has everyone gone mad?” “Everyone was mad already, my lady,” Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. “It is merely that the times have brought it out in them. Tad Williams mad strange gone Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival. Tad Williams princess survival hero Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear. Tad Williams flames fire feet If God is all-powerful, then the Devil must be nothing more than a darkness in the mind of God. But if the Devil is something real and separate, than perfection is impossible, and there can be no God... except for the aspirations of fallen angels. Tad Williams powerful real religious Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me. Tad Williams ancestor People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then? Tad Williams what-if average people Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific! Tad Williams hackers tribes wicked
