Are you impatiently waiting for the next installment of The Band, like us? We’re taking a journey back to the book that started it all! Here are five of our favorite quotes from Kings of the Wyld to celebrate its fifth anniversary.
5. “But life, Clay knew, didn’t work that way. It wasn’t a circle; you didn’t go round and round again. It was an arc, its course as inexorable as the sun’s trek across the sky, destined at its highest, brightest moment to begin its fall.”
4. “WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS.”
3. “But even a coward found his courage in a corner, and there were things even a craven heart could not allow.”
2. “And so it goes, thought Clay. Life was funny, and fickle, and often cruel. Sometimes the unworthy went on living, while those who deserved better were lost. Or not lost, he considered, since they lingered on in the hearts of those who loved them, who love them still, their memory nurtured like a sprig of green in an otherwise desolate soul. Which was, he supposed, a kind of immortality, after all.”
1. “But what does a mirror know? What can it show us of ourselves? Oh, it might reveal a few scars, and perhaps a glimpse—there, in the eyes—of our true nature. The spirit beneath the skin. Yet the deepest scars are often hidden, and though a mirror might reveal our weakness, it reflects only a fraction of our strength.”
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