# Quote — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

> The fear was all he had left, but even that was something—he was afraid, so he must be alive! There was darkness, but there was Simon, too! There were not one and the same. Not yet. Not quite...

- Author: [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md)
- Book: [The Dragonbone Chair](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair.md)
- Page: 199
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#The_Dragonbone_Chair_(1988)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/the-fear-was

## More from this book

> He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/he-who-is-certain.md)

> “Is this being in love?” he suddenly wondered? It was nothing like the ballads he had heard sung—this was more irritating than uplifting.

p. 500 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/is-this-being.md)

> “Now, boy, now...” he said bewilderedly, “what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.”

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/now-boy-now.md)