Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.
David GemmellWe make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.
David GemmellLife is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
David GemmellSocieties need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.
David Gemmell