Gavriel Savit Quotes & Sayings

forefinger, pointing right, parallel — Gavriel Savit

To keep yourself from becoming an instrument of death, you kill? — Gavriel Savit

A river goes wherever the riverbank does. It never had to ask which way, but only flows along. Yes? — Gavriel Savit

Each man is the steward of his own soul. — Gavriel Savit

The world as it exists is a very, very dangerous place. — Gavriel Savit

The only way to imagine the sound of that sort of screaming is to think of it as the sound produced when the universe rips itself open to let Death come through — Gavriel Savit

Human beings are the best hope in the world of other human beings to survive. — Gavriel Savit

The practice of lying is concerned with attempting to overlay a thin paper substitute atop the world that exists in order that it seem to suit your purposes. But the Swallow Man didn't need the world to suit him. He could make himself suit whatever world it pleased him to agree existed. — Gavriel Savit

It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast. — Gavriel Savit

They did not like each other particularly, would never have called one another friend or even have associated under different circumstances, and wherever they were, an argument seemed to lie only a few seconds' journey from them in any given direction.

But something had begun to grow between them as well--a sort of cooperative understanding--and the moments in which this was most obvious were the moments in which one of the two men would forgo his own strongly held way of being and embrace the other's, as if giving a moment of his life to his opposite in tribute. — Gavriel Savit

Normally, her mind was like a busy beach - all day long she would run back and forth, leaving footprints, building small mounds and castles, writing out ideas and diagrams with her fingers in the sand, but when the night tide came in, she would close her eyes and allow each wave of rhythmic breath to wash in and out over her day's accumulation, and before long the beach would be clear and empty, and she would drift off to sleep. — Gavriel Savit

Because," said the swallow man. "A friend is not someone to whom you give the things you need when the world is at war. A friend is someone to whom you give the things that you need when the world is at peace. — Gavriel Savit

I know it's not good for a girl to be without a father these days. But is it any better for a father to be without a daughter? — Gavriel Savit