Frases de Tad Williams

„Los valientes y los locos a menudo viven en la misma cueva, decimos nosotros.

Binabik“

—  Tad Williams

The Dragonbone Chair

„A veces ser el que ostenta el mando significa poseer menos libertad que la que tiene el menor de los siervos.

Jarnauga“

—  Tad Williams

The Dragonbone Chair

„No existe lo que se llama "falta de temor", Simón, a menos que un hombre esté loco.

Doctor Morgenes“

—  Tad Williams

The Dragonbone Chair

„¡Un hombre que posee sabiduría no se sienta a esperar que el mundo aparezca ante él pedazo a pedazo para probar su existencia!

Binabik“

—  Tad Williams

The Dragonbone Chair

„Cuando te cae en la cabeza, entonces te das cuenta de que es una piedra.

Binabik“

—  Tad Williams

The Dragonbone Chair

„Los soldados llevan muchas cargas, muchacho, y a veces mantenerse vivo e la más pesada d´ todas“

—  Tad Williams

The Dragonbone Chair

„Existen muchas clases de prisiones.

Jarnauga“

—  Tad Williams

The Dragonbone Chair

„Era un simple punto brillante en la horrorosa tormenta…, pero incluso un brillo solitario puede devolver sano y salvo a un viajero a su casa.“

—  Tad Williams

The Dragonbone Chair

„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

Fuente: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
Contexto: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “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.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”

„As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.“

—  Tad Williams

„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, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

Author’s Warning
Fuente: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988)

„We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.“

—  Tad Williams

„We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don't 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.“

—  Tad Williams

„You are only a prisoner when you surrender.“

—  Tad Williams, libro Shadowplay

Fuente: Shadowplay

„… Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.“

—  Tad Williams, libro City of Golden Shadow

Fuente: City of Golden Shadow

„She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.“

—  Tad Williams, libro River of Blue Fire

Fuente: River of Blue Fire

„Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.“

—  Tad Williams

Fuente: Shadowrise

„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, libro City of Golden Shadow

Fuente: City of Golden Shadow

„Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.“

—  Tad Williams

Fuente: Shadowrise