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David Jetrè QUOTES

David Jetrè QUOTES

1 " If there are stripes laid on me by Providence, they have become bonds, not that they bind me, but they bind me together: both to myself and to Providence by whose hand they came. And of that togetherness, I do not wish ever to escape. Where you see shackles I see sinews. And what you thought had scarred me had in truth all the better sealed me. These wounds I shall not cast off for they are the many stripes of my rank. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

2 " What does that mean? I do not have the heart to tell you but know if only half of what is whispered of this damnant is true, his evil is twice all the hate of the ages. I do not wish to strand you, but if I tell you now, my words might deflect your courage and prevent you from becoming the man you must. But I promise, I will tell you all that is yours to hear before you grow too doddered, before old age frosts what it doesn’t rub away, lest this secret freeze the warm wealth of your heart. Just know at the banquet for this particular revelation, plums are better than prunes. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

3 " This is good Paledoris, son of Palodaran of Arrowfell, the best minister among many. One not hobbled by inadequate interpretations and who, by focus, keeps my political heavens clear of those who have not earned the right to soar in them. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

4 " I am no garden. No one strolls through me. I am a labyrinth. Men worry at every turn they have gone too far and cannot remember the way out. "

― David Jetrè

5 " I’ve heard of kindness but never found myself behind its gate. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

6 " It may well be that Proya manufactured men stronger than women but like all things that roll out from heaven's mill, that truth has another side, for I have seen men whom a battalion could not corner, beat down by the blinks of a pretty woman. Yes, a man is far stronger than a woman by one measure, but by another, the woman holds the day, and so much more the night. The only folly a woman truly needs worry herself over is the driving of a man to his strength, especially in a rage, for should he ever turn his strength against her with jealous wrath, she is for the grave. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

7 " You would not believe what the voice in my head tells me about you. Not who you are now, but who you’ve yet to become. That is why I am here. I am the trauma that will transform you into what you should be, but don’t have the courage to become on your own. I am the horror you are missing. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

8 " An unarmed man is either a slave or on his way to becoming one. Only villains and black kings disarm their countrymen. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

9 " The way you speak of courage, it goes down like medicine and honey, "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

10 " Sometimes a man needs to hear his own words, but in a friend’s voice. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

11 " We challenged Proya—such madness! What were we thinking? What had we become? We challenged Proya—and He accepted. We should have closed our eyes! We should have turned away. All that power, all that wisdom, all that love we craved for ourselves! How does a spirit fight? Did He raise his hand? Or draw some terrible sword of stars a thousand dreams long? Did He call His holy ones? Did He call forth His hosts? Did He blow out the sun? No. In our horror, in what we had become, we were not even worth a word. How does all that Love destroy you? It just looks away. Then in that terrible moment, you realize just how much of you was sustained by that look—even your hate, your pitiful rebellion. It was by the interest of the One you made your enemy, by the grace of Him you would have brought to ashes if you could, that you even drew breath. "

― David Jetrè

12 " You turn the blood to saltwater, a low-tide of courage pulled away by the moon. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

13 " Your voice could pass for honeysuckle were it not for the sulphur. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

14 " She had a look that could deprive saints of their conscience, and dominate lesser men with a wink. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

15 " You are never well, full or fasting. "

― David Jetrè , Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son