Quotes by David Anthony Durham, Acacia: The War with the Mein

“I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.”

“She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and subs...”

“She was a nightmare of beauty and menace living right there above them, a being part raptor, part human, part divine. She knew without question that she could sweep down on them and inflict upon al...”

“When she spread her wings and leaped screeching into the air she had not the slightest doubt that every hand below her would stretch to catch her. And if one could leap from a height with no fear o...”

“She sat, rediscovering the fullness of her first tongue in one long submersion. Again and again she would pause on a word Melio uttered. She would roll it around in her mind, feeling the contours o...”

“The world was not to be trusted. Loved persons were always stolen. Dreams always squashed. That was life as she understood it.”

“Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost or might lose defined him more than the things he yet possessed.”

“Very little of what he learned of peoples actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comfo...”

“One must find rhythms others ears dont hear.”

“Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.”

“She realized that she had navely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody elses life might alter hers.”

“One must find rhythms others’ ears don’t hear.”

“Very little of what he learned of people’s actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comf...”

“She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.”