“Here I pause. If you wish to walk no farther with me, reader, I do not blame you. It is no easy road.” Science FictionBook Of The New SunGene WolfeSeverian Author:Gene Wolfe
“I am deserving of no gifts." "That is so. But you must recall, Severian, that when a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but payment.” GenerosityGiftsDeservingBook Of The New SunGene Wolfe Book:The Shadow of the Torturer Source: The Shadow of the Torturer
“We say that a man is as brave as an atrox, or that a woman is as lovely as a red roe, as [she] was. But we lack any such term for loyalty, because nothing we know is truly loyal---or rather, because true loyalty is found only in the individual and not in the type. A son may be loyal to his father or a dog to its master, but most are not...perhaps we are unable to advance some paragon of loyalty to an apothegm only because loyalty (in the final analysis) is choice.” LoyaltyBook Of The New SunGene WolfeUrth Of The New Sun Book:The Urth of the New Sun Source: The Urth of the New Sun