H. Leighton Dickson Quotes & Sayings

It more often than not involves a measuring of self, of what is right against what is want. Often these points of decision carry him(or her) down roads that, later, are regretted and even cursed. — H. Leighton Dickson

Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us to amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls. — H. Leighton Dickson

Life turned dragons to stone. Stars to ash, gold to coal. — H. Leighton Dickson

When there are a hundred dragons in the sky, it is Hell Down and Hallow Fire. It is the winds of a hurricane and the roar of the storm. We blot out the sun, we blacken the clouds, we churn the sea like foam. It is a magnificent, terrifying sight. — H. Leighton Dickson

the same with dragons. So that morning, I shook the snow from my head and gazed — H. Leighton Dickson

We didn't have words. We didn't have writing or maps or language, but we had music and in that music, we spoke victory and loss, sadness and rage. We sang fire and water, earth and sky. We wrote the history of the Battle of Lamos and told the story of Selisanae of the Sun and wove the tragedy of the lives and deaths of dragons in every land. It was marvellous. — H. Leighton Dickson

remembered the eye in the tent guilt with gold. "Just — H. Leighton Dickson

Trust was, after all, a freely given commodity. Once lost, it was not easily — H. Leighton Dickson