"Courteous Words Or Else Hard Knocks..."

"...are [a warrior's] only language."The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis
I told Mirriam I would do a quotes post for Adamantine as I did for Plenilune.  It has been a while since I thought actively about Adamantine, since I only have a little more editing to do and really no serious constructive work.  I've been focusing the brunt of my energy on Plenilune.  Additionally, it has been what amounts to years since I first began Adamantine.  That is a lot of ground to go back over, a lot of muddled thought to sort out.  This could be some kind of interesting.


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And then when Beowulf needed him most Wiglaf showed his courage, his strength and skill, and the boldness he was born with.Beowulf
"...we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."Hugh Latimer
"Of this be sure, to do ought good never will be our task, but only ever ill our sole delight."Paradise Lost, John Milton
"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds..."II Corinthians 10:4
I am a question to the world,Not an answer to be heard,Or a moment that's held in your arms.And what do you think you'd understand?I'm a boy - no, I'm a man.You can't take meAnd throw me away.from "I'm Still Here" in "Treasure Planet"
"You're the last of our far-flung family.  Fate has swept our race away, taken warriors in their strength and led them to the death that was waiting.  And now I follow them."Beowulf
Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)That saved a wretch like me!I once was lost, but now am found,Was blind, but now I see.from "Amazing Grace" by John Newton
They spent five days on the farm, and it was during those five days that Justin first really discovered Britain.  The bare winter woods dappled like a partridge's breast, the slow, broad voices of the farm-hands, the lapwings on the winter ploughland; the low, long house itself, built onto by succeeding generations but holding still at its heart the smoke-blackened atrium, used as a storeroom now, that had been the original houseplace, built by another Marcus Flavius Aquila making a home for himself and his British wife and the children that came after - those were all Britain to Justin.The Silver Branch, Rosemary Sutcliff
...half-sunk, a shattered visage lies...from "Ozymandius," Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Look here," said Ransom, "one has to be careful about this sort of thing.  There are spirits and there are spirits, you know."Perelandra, C.S. Lewis
I know there's hope in angerAnd tenderness in shame;Sometimes I find YouOn the other pain.But sometimes in the heat of dayWhen I close my eyes to prayIt seems like You are far from me:My prayers are all in vain.In my hour of hopelessness,In my deep despair,The noonday devil whispers in my ear.from "Noonday Devil," Fernando Ortega
"...if I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell."Aeneid, Virgil
There's a loyalty that's deeper than mere sentiment,And a music higher than the songs that I can sing;Stuff of earth competes for the allegianceI owe only to the giver of all good things.from "If I Stand," Rich Mullins
"He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness."Job 26:10
We wonder, and some Hunter may expressWonder like ours, when thro' the wildernessWhere London stood, holding the Wolf in chace,He meets some fragments huge, and stops to guessWhat powerful but unrecorded raceOnce dwelt in that annihilated place.from "Ozymandius," Horace Smith
The young Centurion, who had been completely still throughout, said very softly, as though to himself, "Greater love hath no man - " and Justin thought it sounded as though he were quoting someone else.The Silver Branch, Rosemary Sutcliff