Blade of Dream Quotes

“She made a fool of me.”
“And who’s not a fool? Who gets from the birthing chair to the grave
with dignity? What prize do the gods hand out to people who never let
themselves care about anything enough to be disappointed by the loss?
Look around you, Captain. Everyone who laughs at you or cringes away?
They’re all thinking of some time when it was them. Some race they ran
and came in last, someone they wooed who didn’t want them, some
moment of glory they reached for and wound up with an empty hand for the
trouble. We’re all fools. Everyone. That’s why we hate fools so much.
They’re the echoes of when we were vulnerable in front of the world
ourselves, and that’s hard for us to forgive.”
― Daniel Abraham, Blade of Dream

“Being young is terrible,” Andomaka said. “Some days, being young is like having your skin come off. Even the air hurts.”
― Daniel Abraham, Blade of Dream

“It’s the dream of it that cuts. You start off with an idea of how it’s supposed to be, and then when it isn’t that, it hurts. That’s not the world’s fault. That’s yours. Ours. Mine. But when you let go of the dream and look to what’s actually possible… there’s a way to be honest with your life that the stories and expectations and wedding oaths don’t tell you. Ways of being with someone that people outside the two of you won’t understand even if you try to tell them, and that’s all right. They don’t need to. We’re deeper than the dreams they give us, if we let ourselves be. We can be faithful to something different.”
― Daniel Abraham, Blade of Dream