It was the blue-tinged taste of a regret so deep you could never plumb its depths. It was the victory at Rajal that never came, it was his brother walking away down the long dark...

No such thing as time travel, he’d rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you’ve done, and try in the future to do what you’re happy to live with.

…you and I will be dust and half-remembered tales before they even start to build that city. But it will come, and when it does, this sword will still be there to see it. Kiriath...

The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get...

Potential, and the will to deploy it. That’s all magic is in the end, you know.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Strange how you could become a man’s god without noticing.

The difference between virtuality and life is very simple. In a construct you know everything is being run by an all-powerful machine.Reality doesn’t offer this assurance, so it’s very easy to develop the mistaken impression...

There’s a sameness to streetlife. On every world I’ve ever been, the same underlying patterns play out, flaunt and vaunt, buy and sell, like some distilled essence of human behavior seeping out from whatever clanking...

Everyone’s afraid of what they don’t understand,” Ringil said quietly.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

…the tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.