10 Quotes by J.R. Potts

He was alone with all the knowledge of the universe burning in his fading brain. All existence is a dream, he thought, but not my dream, it was the dream of the dark slumbering one.

He sat there and read in silence, in pure adulterated silence and he found it strangely cathartic. He had read this book before and knew it had a happy ending. The sort of ending that makes a man believe there is still some good to be found in this world. Ewald needed to believe in good because he could feel it fading within himself

Men like his father avoided hard feelings. They buried themselves in their work and their drink.

Dangerous professions make rowdy men and rowdy men make terrible drunks.

He watched as his words sprouted the seeds of delusion within her mind.

I fear the ire of men over the wraith of gods

The muscle above his lip began to tremble uncontrollably as he tried to hold back all the furor piping up inside him like a furnace full of hot coals but it was searing at his innards.

The evil he had seen there had taken something from him. Something he could not describe in words, but he knew it was lost and never again to be regained.

Winfred Deben’s eyes yawed from the fire and gave Petey an icy glare so cold the lad pulled his cloak even tighter around his body and shivered a little. The old commander had a way of making grown men uncomfortable with just his eyes. They use to joke that Commander Deben could turn a river into a glacier just by looking at it. He was a stern man and he was not known to make jokes or take them well either.