Magefall Quotes

“All things in their time, Your Majesty,” the mage said. “Information is like a sword. Wield it with too much haste and you’ll leave yourself open to attack from behind.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“sometimes big things only came about after a series of small things had been completed first.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“Should we be defined by our mistakes or how we rise above them? I for one plan to do more with my life going forward than I have in the past.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“There was always birdsong, the winged creatures seeming to know how beautiful their voices were to the point where they were determined to flaunt them every hour of every day.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“When you’re as old as I am, you realize nothing really changes. The faces do, the weather as well, but the motivations, the ambitions, the lust for power and wealth…those aspects of life are as unchanging as the paths of the moons across the sky.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“YOUR STAMINA IS PITIFUL. YOUR JUDGMENT IS LITTLE BETTER THAN THAT OF A WORM. Gee, thanks. I’ve never felt so confident. MY PURPOSE ISN’T TO STROKE YOUR EGO. MY PURPOSE IS TO PREPARE YOU. For what? WHATEVER IS TO COME.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“Quill had seen that expression on his friend many times; it was what he looked like when his steel trap of a mind was busy sifting through its archives, plucking out relevant information that was seemingly unrelated but which, to him, was as connected as two pieces of rope tied together. Two pieces of rope would become three would become four, and soon he’d have an entire net brimming with the day’s catch of fish—his conclusions.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“Peony had been filled with so many feelings then, but at the core of all of them was hope. Hope for a better, more fulfilling life, a life full of purpose and opportunity.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“You said I was wise.” “You are. Also foolish. As am I. One wise statement doesn’t erase foolish one. Just as one foolish act doesn’t erase wise one.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“IF YOUR LIFE IS LIKE A HORSE, WILL YOU BE THE RIDER, CONTENT TO BE CARRIED WHEREVER the beast chooses? Or will you be the horse, leaping chasms, galloping over hills and into valleys, making your own path?”
― David Estes, Magefall

“Our ability to choose is the only thing that separates us from animals,”
― David Estes, Magefall

“But I’ve always believed we all begin as a slab of stone, immovable, unchangeable. Or so we appear. Change doesn’t happen from one experience, or even a collection of them. But over years, our experiences, our decisions and their consequences, those who come in and out of our lives, slowly hone us or break off chunks of us, carving us into who we are to become, just as years of wind and storms change the shape of a stone.”
― David Estes, Magefall

“His mind felt like cracked glass, each shard reflecting the light at a slightly different angle, distorting the world around him, turning it into something other than what it truly was. Drip,”
― David Estes, Magefall