![]() ![]() 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. €œOur lives aren’t even about doing real things most of the time. €” Tad Williams, Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass €œEvery man is the hero of his own song.†€” Tad Williams, Otherland: River of Blue Fire €œShe had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.†The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.†“You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.†€” Tad Williams, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.†€œI must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. €œWicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. He had no plans to go back for it, of course: as far as Theo was concerned, that piece of two-legged ugliness was welcome to blow out Tansy’s long-distance bill or download a ton of troll-porn and charge it to the Daisy commune.īetray me, huh? Taste the Revenge of Vilmos!†€œIt was only after they had left the bridge and its guardian far behind that Theo realized he had left Tansy’s telephone-brooch in the pocket of his jacket. ![]() Now are you going to shut your gob or not?†’If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!’ If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink arse is more like it. Just because we don’t get to your side of things much anymore doesn’t mean we don’t know anything. €œCall me that name again and you’ll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe — from below. €œYou’re pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.†€œWe are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.†That, as always, is the end of all our stories.†€œSo we face our final hours… and all that was once certain has become uncertain. €œAs 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.†These are the quotes that rotate on the Home page, collected here in one place for easy reference, refreshed occasionally. Fan-favorite quotes from Tad and his books. ![]()
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