Quotes from David Clement-Davies

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

The future?' came the voice sadly...'And do we really pass anything on to the future, except mirrors of ourselves? What if the future is as painful as the past?' 'That we can never know,'answered the wolf angrily. 'That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe the present. Here and now...What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.

So let me give you a blessing. When everything around you seems conspiring to tear out your heart and your mind, or show you that there is nothing but power and survival, look up there, Kar, at the moon in the giant sky. Hold it as a truth, beyond what we are too blind or ignorant to see all around us. Hold it like love, Kar, and Remember me.

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.