Quotes by Tad Williams

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor? The doctor cocked an eyebrow. Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend youd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend youd never really had

I thought... I thought you might... Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. Youre not starving anymore, are you? <…> You had a dry nights sleep, too, and youre no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed.

Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again touched the feeling from that long ago day, being alone but not lonely, of being solitary yet sufficient.

In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me a chance, sweet Zoria, and I will be a rock for my people.

He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping.

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there werent many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we dont know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. Youll 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.

“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?”