Elsuon Quotes

“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 Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“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 Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“You turn the blood to saltwater, a low-tide of courage pulled away by the moon.”
― David Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“Your voice could pass for honeysuckle were it not for the sulphur.”
― David Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“She had a look that could deprive saints of their conscience, and dominate lesser men with a wink.”
― David Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“You are never well, full or fasting.”
― David Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“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 Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“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 Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“An unarmed man is either a slave or on his way to becoming one. Only villains and black kings disarm their countrymen.”
― David Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“The way you speak of courage, it goes down like medicine and honey,”
― David Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“I’ve heard of kindness but never found myself behind its gate.”
― David Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“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 Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son

“Sometimes a man needs to hear his own words, but in a friend’s voice.”
― David Jetre, Elsuon: The Stonecutter's Son