Fortress of Eagles Quotes

“A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your health, your wealth, your fortune for long years to come, and I hope for many more days in which we can gather like this.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles

“There was a certain wisdom in doing little, when one was obliged to act in ignorance.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles

“He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as Ynefel at its strongest. Perhaps threats simply slid past his attention and he made himself immune.”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles

“Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles

“He knew that he wielded magic as well as iron, and yet looked away from it, and made himself fables to explain his own presence in the world, and sought gods who might be more powerful than himself. It would be very comfortable if there were someone more powerful than himself, on this Road, on this particular morning, someone to guide him, even someone to blame....”
― C.J. Cherryh, Fortress of Eagles