Quotes From "Blade Of Tyshalle" By Matthew Woodring Stover

1
Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other. Matthew Woodring Stover
2
A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before his time. One is mortal. They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless. They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers. They each die fighting the blind god. Matthew Woodring Stover
3
The capacity for personal freedom is a rare talent. Talent exists to be used. We do not ask sheep to be wolves; we, the wolves, do not ask ourselves to be sheep. Sheep can make such rules as happen to suit them--but it's foolishly naive to expect wolves to obey. Matthew Woodring Stover
4
I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step. Matthew Woodring Stover
5
We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer . Matthew Woodring Stover
6
It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood. Matthew Woodring Stover
7
Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be Matthew Woodring Stover