The Last Draig Quotes

“They say time heals all wounds, but I was beginning to lose faith in that statement. How does anything heal wounds that don’t bleed? That aren’t severed or cut? They don’t scab or close. There was no healing salve or stitch or tea to mend the areas afflicted. How could one heal a wound that reopened with every mention or memory? Would that not lead to a scar more permanent than a wound of grief? A scar of nostalgia, a constant reminder of something or someone irretrievably gone.”
― J.D. Linton, The Last Draig

“It was odd how a man in love could hold his entire world in his arms.”
― J.D. Linton, The Last Draig

“I would’ve always been yours, and gladly so, but to know you are mine because you want to be? Because you gave yourself to me? That is a gift I didn’t expect to see in this lifetime.”
― J.D. Linton, The Last Draig

“I could be worthy. For her. For them. For me.”
― J.D. Linton, The Last Draig

“As a woman in a man’s world, that feeling was an addictive, dangerous thing—a dangerously eye-opening thing, revealing just how fragile a man can be in the face of a powerful woman.”
― J.D. Linton, The Last Draig

“It’s funny, isn’t it? How much bigger the world is outside our small village? How odd is it that I was so consumed with such a minuscule life as if that was all the realm had to offer? I couldn’t see beyond what I already had. I didn’t have it in me to want for more, but I get it now, you know? Your hunger for more and your unwillingness to settle for less. I didn’t… I didn’t know there was this much more.”
― J.D. Linton, The Last Draig

“Grief was heavy—too heavy. It was a weight permanently tied to our souls after loss, only lessening with time, and it could all too easily drag us to the deep, unending bottom of our sorrow if given the opportunity. Without help to lighten the load, that was exactly what it would do: drown the hurt and vulnerable.”
― J.D. Linton, The Last Draig