Green Monkey Dreams Quotes

“My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said”
― Isobelle Carmody, Green Monkey Dreams

“They ask me to write down all I remember of the Glory days. A hard thing, because there is so much of Sorrow in the telling.”
― Isobelle Carmody, Green Monkey Dreams