D.J. Edwardson > Quotes

“Though thankless you are and surely undeserving, I leave you with this truth all the same. For it is not what you know, but knowing what's true that matters. Clever men teach many false things.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Rimewinter

“You’re too young to remember, but your father was the best friend I ever had. And when he left, I promised him I’d watch over you. And your mother and your sister, too, but especially you, because it’s hard for a boy to grow up without a father. A lot of men who turned out bad might have ended up different if only they’d had a man to guide them, to keep them straight when they turned the wrong way.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Truesilver

“for dragons are never entirely satisfied. If they were, they wouldn’t be dragons.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“But that’s the thing, isn’t it?” Zinder said. “There’s not always a fire to come home to. And on those days you need persistence. Sometimes life is pleasant and you hardly notice the hours passing by. That’s the way it is for me at the anvil. But other days you have to scratch your way through with everything you have in you. There’s not always the promise of a warm hearth awaiting you. But you press on. You don’t give up. And then, wonder of wonders, you find the fire’s there, just when you need it most. But if you don’t persist, you’ll never find the fire.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“Odd how stories of others overcoming great challenges give us courage to overcome our own.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“It’s better to die fighting for what’s right than win fighting for what’s wrong.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“There's more that goes into great victories than feats of arms.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Rimewinter

“Some choices bring sorrow on either side.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Rimewinter

“For a moment, the veil had lifted and he had seen into the realm of the unseen, into that world which is more real than the one of flesh and bone, of struggle and futility, of loss and death. He had seen with a vision that goes beyond the eyes, had known with understanding that goes beyond the mind, had felt with a feeling that goes deeper than the heart. He had glimpsed the great eternal Beyond upon which the visible world is founded and built and for a brief moment all that was fragmented and fractured had been made whole.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“Perhaps instead of putting his mother out of his thoughts as he so often did, he should, like Dalia, take comfort in his memories. But could he? Would his heart allow him to see past his grief to the goodness that had been? Could thankfulness triumph over sorrow in the end? He was not sure. But oh, how he hoped that it could.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“Wasn’t that the point of the story? That you could defeat the dragons? That you could eventually overcome any foe if you held on long enough?”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“War is an act of faith. A struggle and a search and a longing for that final justice, for that final peace, when we can lay down our arms and embrace each other, rather than tear each other apart. That is why we fight. For truth and justice.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“They gave their lives protecting their friends. There can be no greater sacrifice,”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“Tiryn had to admire his stubborn kindness. Such a firm, honest, grounded fellow. You didn’t come across his kind everyday, but such people made the world go on through all its travails and troubles. Perhaps it was only a small effort in a very large war, but then again, what were great deeds but the sum of many smaller ones?”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“There are always true-hearted men to be found in any land, though it may take longer to discover them in some more than others.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“Grief may have darkened their hearts, but its power was not absolute. There was still light and goodness that endured, and the strong, tender bonds of family brought healing even to those who stood on the edge of their glow.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“But Kion knew one thing. He trusted them and trust does not depend upon understanding.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“The world is a perpetual surprise to those who have the honesty to see it as it is.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“There must be some final, fuller justice that truly satisfies, that makes amends for all the evils of this world. We may not see it in this life. It may be waiting in the world beyond, but surely it must be for there to be any justice at all.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“Evil is only ever a half step from betrayal,”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“That’s not the point at all. The point isn’t that he wasn’t satisfied.’ Zinder turned a serious eye on his young friend. ‘The point is that he did not know how to deny his own desires. Neither did his poor mother, for that matter. Satisfaction is a state that may or may not come. It certainly never did for Avrix. It’s the learning to be unsatisfied that matters: taking one dumpling when you really want two, maybe even need two. Not all desires are meant to be fulfilled. That’s what Avrix, and most of the rest of the world, for that matter, never figure out. And that’s why men do terrible things to each other. That’s what drives the haukmarn to raid and pillage, and forces men like Strom and your father to leave their homes and take up arms against them.’

Zinder’s tone had a sobering effect on Kion. ‘Hmm… to be unsatisfied and still go on as if you weren’t. I suppose that does make some sense.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Truesilver

“Kindness is worth suffering for,”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“You shall know a leader by the quality of those who serve him.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“The world is a perpetual surprise to those who have the honesty to to see it as it is.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“The dragon swooped down loud as thunder and swift as lightning. Fister barely had time to think. But barely any time is more time than no time. And when you’re about to be swallowed by a dragon, barely any time can mean an awful lot.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar

“For though war is an ugly thing, the craft of war and the ingenuity it demands is not.”
― D.J. Edwardson, Grimbriar