Endfall Quotes

“GIVE ME A MAN WHO SAYS HE’S A GOOD LEADER AND I’LL GIVE YOU A POWER-HUNGRY TYRANT.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“We Heroes All, by Cormorant Messi”
― David Estes, Endfall

“Something was opened inside of him, and he saw the world as it was and as it should be, all the good and the evil and the shades of gray in between, the people who loved and hated, the healers and the murderers, the children being born and”
― David Estes, Endfall

“You value life, and you should. You were never the killing machine you were created to be. In fact, I think many of our kind were more like you than they would’ve ever admitted. There is a pack mentality amongst all creatures. It’s easier to follow the herd without question, to barrel forward without question, not caring what you trample beneath your feet. Not considering whether the very act of moving forward is good or evil. You broke that pattern.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“she’d found exactly what she’d been searching for, even if it was more beautiful and terrible than she could’ve ever imagined. More painful and more fulfilling too. Along the way, she’d learned that victory and defeat were reluctant bedfellows, and that one must learn to sleep in the space between them.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“When you reach a certain age, you stop worrying about what everyone thinks about you,” she said. “It’s rather liberating, I must say.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“So while you should regret your actions—and indeed, they were horrid and selfish—what you choose to do with those feelings going forward will define the man you become.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“Realizing that he didn’t hate himself. Didn’t hate Sampson or Amari. Didn’t even hate his dead father. To hate was to give another power over your own actions, and he was done with that.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“Peony understood the breadth of regret one’s mind could create. Even now, her parents’ deaths weighed heavily on her. If she’d been stronger, faster, smarter… If she’d fought harder… Those ‘ifs’ were like a plague, spreading to more ifs and then what ifs followed by the shouldas, couldas and wouldas. But life was too short for all of that unchangeable rot.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“Miles were conquered under his padded paws as he paced trails over vast plains and rolling, snow-blanketed hills, skirted cliffs that tumbled headlong into the sea and traversed woodlands where naked, forlorn trees mourned the loss of their leaves to winter’s harsh breath.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“Save your silver tongue, Joai, I’m not a roll to be buttered.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“I did everything in my power. But in the end, I can’t be certain it was enough.” She nodded thoughtfully. “That is the case with most things in life. Becoming comfortable with such uncertainty is the only way to gain true happiness.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“At least the man was no longer cowering and urinating in his underclothes.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“Living the present mired in the past has brought me nothing but pain and regret.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“I have been angry before. I still am sometimes, but I’ve learned how to manage such feelings.” “How?” “Practice. Like anything else, learning to ride a dragon, to swing a sword, to master shadowguard, you must train. Except this training isn’t physical but mental, which is the most difficult type of training.”
― David Estes, Endfall