Deathmarked Quotes

“And now he had legs. Legs of yew and iron, perfected over many years of experimentation and effort. At first learning to walk on them had been frustrating, his falls more numerous than his steps. But like any child learning a new thing, he had taken one step at a time, and now he could run. Actually run.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Sounds emerged from his throat he didn’t know he was capable of forming. Animal sounds. Gurgles and croaks and groans and growls.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“I’ve seen what lesser men only dream of seeing.” “And what is that?” She was growing tired herself, but of his antics, not the journey. “The beginning. And the end.” “What—no middle?” She couldn’t keep the edge out of her voice. “The middle is unimportant. I think I finally understand that.” In some ways, she wished she felt the same way. But to her, “The middle is everything”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Joy. That’s what is missing. These were men who once relished the voyage, rather than the destination. Now they seemed to complete tasks simply because they needed to be completed.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Changing stubborn people’s minds was like fighting a war against an invincible opponent.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“He said nothing. He didn’t blink. His chest didn’t rise nor fall. It’s not supposed to be this way, Annise thought. Where were the last words, the chance to say goodbye, the opportunity to apologize for everything, to seek the forgiveness of one of the few people she wanted it from? But, she knew, real life wasn’t like the stories. Death was sudden and final.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“As for the unknown, he’d faced that before, and he always prepared the same way. Train. Polish his armor. Oil his boots. Sharpen his sword. Focus on what he could control. That was the best he could do to ward off the anxiety that came along with new situations.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Somewhere between right and wrong, there is a garden. That is where we shall meet.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Scholarship isn’t about being given answers in books, it’s about discovering them for yourself.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Why must humans control everything? Life should be a partnership. If everyone understood that, there would be no war, no violence.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Why would anyone fear the truth?” Windy waved her arms as if giving a sermon. “Because most people are sheep, at least where we come from. They would rather dine on lies and feel safe than swallow a truth that scares them.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“We do not need an end for every action. It is the doing that is important. These artists paint because they love art. And they share what they love without expectation of reward.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“You say impossible even though you see with your own eyes? Foolish human.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Pain is what reminds us that we’re alive.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“That was…” He trailed off, and she knew there were no words to describe what they’d just experienced, that dance of their souls. It was like they were wrapped in moonslight and painted with starlight. Like the rest of the world had ceased to exist and it was… “Just us,” he said, finishing her thought, though she hadn’t spoken it into his soul. “Yes,” she said. “Just us.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“seek truth without fear.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Good men perish, bad men survive; a place of sorrow, where destruction may thrive. Only one may tell this tale of woe; for the others have passed into the Void, their seeds to sow.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“The dawn draws near, the night absolved of fear; but light brings blood, first drops, then pools, a flood.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“There’s lying and there’s lying by omission. Don’t confuse the two.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“My poetry has been called dark, a cry for help by a troubled man. But I am not troubled; I only write the truth as I see it. Nor do I need help—no, it’s the rest of them that need help.” Japarti, famous Calypsian poet”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“There is always hope, so long as good men and women choose to fight,”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“The evil inside us matches only the evil beside us, To pray, to betray, skies darken to gray, While our shadows hold knives and our dreams consume lives, Our wounds no longer bleed, filled with ash and our own reckless deeds. Japarti, famous Calypsian poet”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Does an eye for an eye solve the problems of the world?”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“For as the fire’s embers darken into night, And the smoke that blinds, that burns, that fades, So shall the lives of those that play, The games of war, vanish in the coming light. Japarti, famous Calypsian poet”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Somewhere between right and wrong, there is a garden. That is where we shall meet. Japarti, famous Calypsian poet”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“How did one go on when the very best part of them had been stripped away? How did one move forward when their current life felt but a pale shade of their former?”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“It’s not supposed to be this way, Annise thought. Where were the last words, the chance to say goodbye, the opportunity to apologize for everything, to seek the forgiveness of one of the few people she wanted it from? But, she knew, real life wasn’t like the stories. Death was sudden and final.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“most people are sheep, at least where we come from. They would rather dine on lies and feel safe than swallow a truth that scares them.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“Not the winds nor the stars take the distance, but our very feet; for time is but a place where hearts may rest as the world changes with the seas.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked

“The truth should only be feared if one is on the wrong side of it.”
― David Estes, Deathmarked