The Sword Defiant Quotes

“All you have are stories, retold over and over, fading and changing with each retelling. And here is the sorry thing – few of the elves remember either, even those that were there. Memories become eclipsed by memories of memories, and the story becomes the only truth that remains. Sometimes, I think that is why we elves fade over time – we can no longer recall who we truly are, beneath all the masks and diversions, and so we become nothing more than thin veneers, easily discarded.”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“Getting old was surviving a series of unseen battles; you didn’t always know you were fighting them, but got buffeted and wounded all the same.”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“Tolkien is one of the threads that runs through much of my life”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“Whatever else was going on around him in this whirlwind of plot and counterplot”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“He grunted that war was mostly waiting the way adventuring was mostly walking.”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“No wonder all the stories of heroes ended in hasty happily-ever-afters”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“Slay Death”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“You mortals have your little lives. You start afresh with each generation”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“He grasped Alf’s shoulder. “Remember that. We’re the big damn heroes.”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“Compared to the glory of the elf-spirit before him”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“Among the dwarves”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“as the fathers of the fathers of men did”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“The dwarf treated the roasted deer as a mountain of meat to be diligently mined,”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“The path twisted again”
― Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“he forged hold no longer.” Gundan rubbed his eye, and his finger came away bloody. He paced up and down beside the fire. “You want”
― Gareth Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“expression”
― Gareth Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“than friendship, but they have a potency”
― Gareth Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant

“spells.”
― Gareth Hanrahan, The Sword Defiant