# Quote — Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower

> Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.

- 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: 639
- 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/perhaps-it-is-fortunate

## 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)