Robert Fanney Quotes

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

~ Robert Fanney

Silent. So it should be. You have no place in this world, Luthiel. And there is no other.' Zalos reached out and lifted a few strands of her hair. 'Bright songs and the magic of hope are but a dangerous illusion. The fake comfort of witches charms.

~ Robert Fanney

Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.

~ Robert Fanney

I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.

~ Robert Fanney

If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.

~ Robert Fanney

If I could make a dream real, I would not kill anything unless it could never be changed at heart.

~ Robert Fanney

Writers shouldn't fear criticism. Instead, they should fear silence. Criticism is healthy. It gets people thinking about your work and, even better, it gets them talking and arguing. But as for silence -- it is the greatest killer of writers. So if you hate a book and want to hurt it -- don't talk about it. And if you hate my books -- please, for God's sake, shout it from the hills!

~ Robert Fanney

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel -- can't get anywhere without it. Or like a lighthouse without a light on top -- doesn't guide anyone in to home or safe harbor.

~ Robert Fanney

In my experience, nothing worthwhile has ever really been all that easy. But it certainly has been worthwhile regardless how difficult it seemed.

~ Robert Fanney

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become.

~ Robert Fanney

Wars are won in the will.

~ Robert Fanney

Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off -- dancing in the hot air.

~ Robert Fanney

Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself among them. I am older than most sorcerers so what I know may, indeed, be close to the truth. Magic, wyrd, words, dreams, they all come from the spirit. Within them lie both power and peril. For to misuse any is to warp your sense of self. To lie in words, or in magic, or in dreams -- that is how you become lost. The lights you see, they were lost long before they came to the Vale.

~ Robert Fanney

We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.

~ Robert Fanney

There are very few things that live in both this world and the world of dreams. Most are gods, angels and demons. The Stone you hold was made by Vlad Valkire the son of an angel and a demon. By the divine blood that ran in his veins, Valkire could see the light and hear the song of creation -- if only as glimmerings and whispers. Over time, he became aware of the light and the music and as he grew so did his understanding of it. At the age of twenty two, he began his greatest labor -- the making of the Wyrd Stones. In them he captured the light and song of creation and by them some of the powers of gods, angels and demons fell into the hands of elves and men. A sorcerer who knows its secret may -- like a god, angel, or demon -- stand with one foot in this world and another within the world of dreams. Your Stone is a gateway into the world of dreams, Luthiel. When you sing, it opens and you are, in part, taken there. Others who hold a Wyrd Stone like yours may know when someone crosses into dream. When you sang, I could hear you quite clearly.

~ Robert Fanney

To all those women -- strong enough to be heroes, fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.

~ Robert Fanney

A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter's tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano'sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still...

~ Robert Fanney

Rise, Luthiel, in the name of love you came and in the name of love I crown you!

~ Robert Fanney

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

~ Robert Fanney

In the depth a light will grow,A silver shine no shadows know, Like wings unfolding in the sky,That circle 'round a gleaming eye,Turning darkness all away,Even depths will know their day,For every shadow has its end,In light!Life will return again!

~ Robert Fanney

To be me is to be different...

~ Robert Fanney

Mithorden: 'We become what we do, Zalos.

~ Robert Fanney

Mithorden: 'He was brilliant, yes, but ready to laugh at himself when he made mistakes. You may not believe it, but he made mistakes often.'Luthiel: 'Why?' She choked around her tears.Mithorden: 'Because he tried to do great things. Anyone can succeed at easy things. But the things Valkire tried were very difficult. He wanted to make things better for people of all races -- for he saw the good in them.

~ Robert Fanney

A genius is someone who takes a complex thing and makes it look simple. An academic does the opposite.

~ Robert Fanney

I'd say we're all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought.

~ Robert Fanney

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

~ Robert Fanney