Dave Rudden > Quotes

“Show me something you can build from revenge that you can’t build from acceptance.”
― Dave Rudden, The Forever Court

“There's no point to revenge. You either don't get it, in which case the want grows until it collapses your world around you, or you do get it. And then you have it. Great. Show me something you can build from revenge that you can't build from acceptance.”
― Dave Rudden, The Forever Court

“When you where a kid, black robes and jagged armor made you evil. That was how you told the good from the bad.

Unfortunately, that idea fell apart as soon as you poked it. Bad people - even the phrase sounded childish- could do good, and good people did bad things all too often.

Evil wasn't a cliff you fell from. It was a stair case you climbed.”
― Dave Rudden, The Forever Court

“She is the one who looked at everything sanity had to offer and wrote it a polite and reasoned rejection.”
― Dave Rudden

“It was an occupational hazard of being a bookworm. You stopped thinking in terms of reality and started thinking of nick-of-time rescues and the power of a dramatic speech.”
― Dave Rudden, The Forever Court

“One moment you might be fighting for your life against impossible odds, and the next you'd be doing the dishes. Maybe that's why Knights were constantly on edge - you never knew whether the next five minutes would contain soul crushing horror or chips with garlic sauce.”
― Dave Rudden, The Forever Court

“overthinking wasn’t the cool and interesting superpower that fiction made it out to be. It was just a bit awful all the time.”
― Dave Rudden, The Forever Court