John Edgell > Quotes

“From up here, the world doesn’t seem so small and confining.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“I would caution you—ambition is a deadly disease.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“Once you start liking someone, the truth is harder to see.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“It seems to me that we are the ones who choose beauty or ugliness. And yes, too often we choose the latter.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“How it will come about remains a question. That it will come about is not a point in question.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“Every man stands before his Maker, and although a man may stand alone, if he stands true, it is enough.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“But it is not the land that is at peace. It is my heart that is at peace when I am in this land.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“One can be very courageous and still have fear in the heart.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“Because your own soul is in bondage, do you resent the freedom of another?”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“The promise of rain, of hope, of life. Are the clouds but an illusion? Laughing, do they pass over this land only to leave the forest languishing and its thirst unsatisfied?”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“By muck and by mud, as I see it, when we were blest we made the blessing a curse. And when we were cursed, the curse became our blessing!”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“Vengeance and death did not satisfy. They only made the void he felt within that much deeper.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled