Wings of Fire Quotes

“Paradise? Pshaw! A place of pools and cool water, with dancing girls no better than they ought to be, and wine to soak the brain in forgetfulness? I don’t call that much of a reward for the faithful. Endless whoring and sinfulness, that’s what it means. But fit for hounds. They know no better!”
― Charles Todd, Wings Of Fire

“Nicholas was already tall for his age, dark unruly hair and dark eyes, although in the photograph you couldn’t tell if they were brown or dark blue.”
― Charles Todd, Wings Of Fire

“the frisson of fear that comes from knowing that you’re safe even while the tigers noisily devour your neighbor.”
― Charles Todd, Wings Of Fire

“The writer was coming into maturity, looking at life and death as if they were the same, a coming from darkness and a returning to it, a brief, bright, glorious span that was often marred by man’s own incapacity to learn and trust.”
― Charles Todd, Wings Of Fire

“They’ll never grow old—never feel fear and cold, hunger or pain, or the sorrows of lost love or the pity of the young. While they have missed much, these men who won’t see their sons in their mothers’ arms, or the moon over a summer sea, or the beauty of a rose, they have what we all look for in the end—eternal springtime. It is not their grief but ours that haunts us.”
― Charles Todd, Wings Of Fire

“dark periods when living seems to be harder than giving up. Have you never felt that death seemed a friend you could turn to gladly?” Hamish”
― Charles Todd, Wings Of Fire