Demon's Reign Quotes

“Everyone has a coward in them, I believe, it all depends on how much attention you pay yours, and mine was currently screaming to run.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“How do we fight fear with more fear? If there’s some secret you’ve been keeping back all these seasons and staying one step from a coward keeps you alive, then please do let us know.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“Vivid as vinelight during the fight but a muddle of fog afterwards. It’s often the way, almost as if your mind doesn’t want the memories.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“We proved we can muddle through, is all.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“Fear is what kills you, and today we proved we are no longer afraid.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“Only a fool says she isn’t afraid of battle. I’ve seen plenty more than I should have, and my hands still shake around my sword before I fight.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“Fear is the first weapon of any war, and its blades cut us deep.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“Looking at these shelves, you’d think we knew it all. You’d be wrong. Those scholars are caretakers and nothing more. We don’t pine for knowledge as we should, but instead organise and reorganise our shelves to look important. And worse, half the scrolls filling these caves are nothing but accounts from drunken, amateur scholars centuries forgotten, claiming to tell the truth.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“When people can’t have what they want, they come to hate it.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“I’m not an idiot, nor any other kind of person who doesn’t change their minds when the world changes around them.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“Strange, how firstglow was such a dreaded time when I was bound by work. The first day of freedom, and it wasn’t early enough.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“While the learned soul strives to break each limit of knowledge, the fool’s stupidity knows no such bounds.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“I should have held my tongue, but it was a skill I had never honed.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“A lot seems impossible to those with limited knowledge of the possible,”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“The unknown coloured minds different hues. As always, those minds of poor constitution or panic were painted with fear.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“I had worked for more than a dozen headmen and headwomen, and every one of them was the same: they delighted in rolling their shit down the steep hill of superiority”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign

“There was no good day to be executed.”
― David Estes, Demon's Reign