David Cornford > Quotes

“The general threw his head up and roared. It was the terrible sound of something savage that had been caged finally finding release.”
― David Cornford, Chosen Of The Dark Realm

“Turning away from his father was wrenching, and Samuel heard his quiet sobbing as he walked out of the kitchen and started climbing the stairs. His dad was his rock, was the solidity and strength that underpinned the family. Seeing him like this was beyond unsettling, it was shattering. His father was their strength, his mother their heart. Together, they were his life, and not only was he leaving them, leaving everything he had ever known, he was also breaking them.”
― David Cornford, Chosen Of The Dark Realm

“Only the Shepherd guides us along a path where our actions enrich ourselves, those around us, and indeed everything that lives in this world. It is a path of fulfilment, longevity, and renewal. The Church exists to help people find that path and to walk it when, at times, it can seem impossibly hard and its rewards painfully out of reach.”
― David Cornford, Chosen Of The Dark Realm

“Inch by inch he rose, scraping up from a reality of nothing toward a dream of something. It was a journey of blood and pain. It was a near impossible climb on something broken that brutally resisted his advancement and promised to break him.
It was the physical embodiment of his life.”
― David Cornford, Chosen Of The Dark Realm