David > David's Quotes

“But there are times — my favorite climbs — when it doesn’t feel as if I’m climbing. Instead, the cliff or tree or wall seems to be lifting me, higher and higher.”
― David Kudler, Bright Eyes: A Kunoichi Tale

“The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.”
― David Kudler, Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale

“I tell yeh, Bright-eyes. Men and women? A bloody mess. Every time.”
― David Kudler, Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale

“No harm," he said as he danced on, cutting the air. Only now, the snowflakes began to bleed as he cut them. Battle of white and scarlet...
"Oto-san, what can I do?" I wept in the dream, my tears freezing to my cheeks.
"Dance," he said, his face still and calm, his blade whistling through the air. Blood flew from the tip of the sword, painting characters of death and disaster across the white ground.
Dancing.”
― David Kudler, Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale

“Be swift as the wind,
silent as the forest,
fierce as fire,
steady as a mountain.”
― David Kudler, Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale

“A kunoichi is married to her duty, and to death.”
― David Kudler, Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale

“Soldiers falling fast
Battle of white and scarlet
Blossoms on the ground”
― David Kudler, Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.”
― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell

“Lea found that she was saying things, saying them pretty loudly, but had no clear concept of what she was saying. [Sean and Andy’s] names, maybe. The seventy-two names of God. The capitals of all fifty states.

Love. That word featured in there a lot. Which made sense. To the extent that Lea had any sense left at all.

She was coming. Stupid word, coming. Arriving seemed more like it. Or exploding. Was there a word that meant both?

If there were, it would have described what she was doing. Again, very loudly.”
― K.D. West, The Visitor Entertains

“At that moment, in the temple of her lovers’ tangled limbs, Lea felt the presence of the Divine close by, immanent and imminent — everywhere and everywhen — and it was a sublime feeling, one that made her feel infinitely powerful and infinitely small, both at the same time.

A good fuck can make even an agnostic see God — a fact that explained Lea’s parents’ fascination with Tantra, something about which Lea thought as little as possible.”
― K.D. West, The Visitor Entertains

“A kunoichi is married to her duty, and to death”
― David Kudler

“Love is like a jigsaw puzzle.

There's an infinite number of ways for people to fit together.”
― K.D. West, The Visitor Celebrates

“Like love, like gravity, sex can warp the fabric of time and space.”
― K.D. West, The Visitor Rises: A Friendly Reverse Harem+ Tale (Interracial MMMFF)