A Time of Blood Quotes

“There is much in life that is beyond our control, events that sweep us up and along, actions that wrap us tight in their consequences. Stop raging about the things you cannot change. Just be true to yourself and do what you can do. Love those worth loving, and to the Otherworld with the rest of it. That is all any of us can do.”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Blood

“Each small step taken for a greater good, and then before you know it, you have walked a thousand leagues from where you used to be. And how do you return to that place, return to the person you were? Or if you cannot do that, how do you become the person that you wish to be?”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Blood

“The heart cannot be ruled, but it can be fooled,”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Blood

“The dead tell no lies.”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Blood

“A person is made by their heart and their wits.” He touched his one hand to his chest and then to his temple. “And by the deeds that they do. Their choices. Not whether they have pale skin or dark skin, wings or no wings. One hand or two.”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Blood

“Stop raging about the things you cannot change. Just be true to yourself and do what you can do. Love those worth loving, and to the Otherworld with the rest of it. That is all any of us can do.”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Blood

“I wish we were back there still, that we could leave all of this behind. I felt… happy there, with you. That is not real, now, Riv scolded herself. Live in the now, not the what-might-have-been.”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Blood

“Am I becoming like him, by ignoring his myriad dark deeds? Is this how Aphra felt? Each small step taken for a greater good, and then before you know it, you have walked a thousand leagues from where you used to be. And how do you return to that place, return to the person you were?”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Blood

“The heart cannot be ruled, but it can be fooled,” Byrne said.”
― John Gwynne, A Time of Blood