# Quote — Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower

> Miriamele was dismayed by her own willful ignorance. How could she, with all her native good fortune, be so consumed with the few inconveniences that God or fate had put in her way? It was shameful.
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> She tried to tell Duke Isgrimnur something of her thoughts, but he would not let her slide too far into self-loathing.
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> “Each one of us has our own sorrows, Princess,” he said. “It’s no shame to take them to heart. The only sin is to forget that other folk have theirs, too—or to let pity for yourself slow your hand when someone needs help.”

- Author: [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md)
- Book: [To Green Angel Tower](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower.md)
- Page: 649
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#Part_1) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/miriamele-was-dismayed

## More from this book

> Sometimes doing the gods’ bidding required a hardened heart.

p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/sometimes-doing-the.md)

> To fight a war, you must believe it can accomplish something. We fight this one to save John’s kingdom, or perhaps even to save all of mankind...but isn’t that what we always think? That all wars are useless—except the one we’re fighting now?

p. 314 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/to-fight-a-war.md)

> It was easy to hate if he did not think, Simon discovered.

p. 469 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/to-green-angel-tower/it-was-easy.md)