Thinblade Quotes

“You have a right to your life because you are alive. You have a right to your liberty because you have free will. You have a right to your property because it is the product of your labor. You forfeit these rights when you take them from another.”
― David A. Wells, Thinblade

“Be driven by emotion but ruled by reason.”
― David A. Wells, Thinblade

“These men lived in a world where the meaning of words was fluid, where there were no absolutes. Everything was a matter of interpretation or opinion. Truth and fact mattered little to them. Power was their stock in trade and it was clear after the meeting that most of them didn’t care much how they acquired it.”
― David A. Wells, Thinblade

“He had committed no crime. Yet men, armed with steel and magic, were trying to murder him. Alexander had never done anything that justified the forfeiture of his life. He was entitled to live until he had. The man he’d killed had died in the commission of a crime. He’d come to kill and had died instead. Justice done.”
― David A. Wells, Thinblade

“his own gold-flecked”
― David A. Wells, Thinblade

“reason depended on accurate facts. And accurate facts only came from an honest and unbiased assessment of the situation. Deal in what is, not what if.”
― David A. Wells, Thinblade

“Alexander lay there holding Isabel’s hand and tried to understand the kind of totally self-absorbed, self-important narcissism that must poison the souls of such people in order to motivate them to sever all ties with civil existence and embrace the savage within. What a cold and lonely way to live. What an empty and hateful way to see the world. How they must fear everyone else in the blindly selfish belief that others surely must see the world in the same way.”
― David A. Wells, Thinblade

“Focus on the solution, not on the problem.”
― David A. Wells, Thinblade

“He recalled his father’s advice on the matter: “You’ll know it’s time when you meet the right woman and she tells you it’s time.” As”
― David A. Wells, Thinblade