Emrys Quotes

“I am who I am and I am who I was, and I am who I will always be!”

“The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.”

“Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards. If they fall short of the ethical conditions we place upon ourselves, what use are they to us - except to rationalize our own failures?”

“If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude.”

“Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.”

“If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.”

“You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one.”

“If magic violates the fundamental laws of nature, they clearly weren't all that fundamental.”

“This is the simplest of spells, and foundation to all others. Magic seeks to better understand, and eventually to build on, the connection between minds and bodies. Even to calm a storm, you treat the wind and rain as if they were alive and corporeal. That is why blood is part of the spell, along with words and symbols.”

“Even the most ill-formed words, set to paper, are a great blessing.”