David Benem > Quotes

“The more evil in the world the less good, and the converse. Bale thought differently. He guessed the true goodness in men’s hearts, the kind that kindled self-sacrifice and real courage, only manifested in the face of true evil. At all other times, like now, it sat dormant, smothered beneath layers of ambivalence. Along”
― David Benem, What Remains of Heroes

“I could give two shits about who sits on what throne and what flag rises from Rune’s towers. Whoever it is I have to kneel to is always going to be some vicious swindler who climbed into that throne on the backs of the poor, the broken and the dead.”
― David Benem, What Remains of Heroes

“him: “Character is doing what you don’t want to do, for reasons you cannot avoid.”
― David Benem, What Remains of Heroes

“It was the unspoken strength of the beaten but not broken, that certainty within the soul that one had withstood the very worst life had to offer, and yet remained standing. Perhaps”
― David Benem, What Remains of Heroes

“It is a shameful, corrupting thing when the powerful rule amidst such excess. The”
― David Benem, What Remains of Heroes

“We all start life accepting whatever crap our parents choose to feed us. Me? My mum, like most mums, taught me the Old Faith, or at least whatever scraps of it she’d learned as a child. I soon found I wasn’t much for it, but then I don’t figure you can be for such things in a profession such as ours. But as a man gets older those things no longer seem so… outlandish. You see things. You feel things shift inside you, a change of heart, or maybe just a wanting to have a change of heart. You begin to get the feeling there’s more to this world than just men and their madness.”
― David Benem, What Remains of Heroes