"Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light."

-- Steven Erikson

#War Quotes #Dark Quotes #Light Quotes

“Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.”
“Sometimes you read something and it's just -- it doesn't invite a reader....Sometimes you read something and it's not saying, 'oh come in, come in have a seat. I'm going to tell you what happened.' Perhaps my writing comes off as conversational...and that takes effort.”
“My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people”
“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it”
“Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.”
“When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes.”
“A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.”

Source : Pat Barker (1996). “The Regeneration Trilogy”, Gardners Books
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

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