# Quote — Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower

> “Why can nothing be simple?”
>
> Geloë shifted on her stool. The wise woman’s voice was surprisingly sympathetic. “Because nothing is simple, Prince Josua.”

- 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: 635
- 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/why-can-nothing

## 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)