Sword Dance Quotes

“Does a physician wish for a plague so he can exercise his skill?”
― A.J. Demas, Sword Dance

“It was odd to be on a night mission - behind enemy lines, so to speak - with a fellow you wanted to kiss all the time.”
― A.J. Demas, Sword Dance

“[Philosophers] would say that it was natural for men to desire women, but if you spent too much of your time with women, or took them too seriously, it made you unmanly. Men ought to reserve their purest affections for other men, they said. But they meant something quite specific by that...Their idea of the virtuous man was someone who didn't love anyone, male or female, really heartily.”
― A.J. Demas, Sword Dance

“I don’t know how I make you happy—if I really do—unless it’s that you enjoy having brought a wretched man back to life.”
― A.J. Demas, Sword Dance