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

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Dreams Sleep

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 of falling, could one not be said to possess the secret of flight? Just like a bird, just like a god.

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Bravery Courage Freedom

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 substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Loss Of Faith Love Self Reliance Strength Survival Trust Issues Trust Yourself

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 all of them a terrible vengeance if she wished. She had the capacity for violence within her, residing beside her heart.

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Divinity Within Female Divinity Fierceness Strength Strength Of A Woman Violence

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

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Death Loss Sadness Sorrow

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.

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Defining Traits Human Nature Loss Possessiveness

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

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Discernment Intuition Listening Understanding

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 of it. At times her mouth gaped open, her lips moving as if she were drinking in his words instead of breathing.

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Language Mother Tongue

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 comforting in this.

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Human Nature Ideology Nobility War Wickedness

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

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Mutual Respect Respect Respecting Others

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.

~ David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham Epiphanic Moment Loss Of Innocence Naivety Reality Of Life Realization
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