Leighton Dickson Quotes

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.

People say that a Dragon breathes Fire. That is a myth. A Dragon IS Fire and his Whole Life is the Story of his Burning - Page by Blistering Page.

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.

They are called Stick People because they build their world of sticks.

Trust was, after all, a freely given commodity. Once lost, it was not easily

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.

Her stare was cold, inscrutable, as if she were weighing him in the white, hot fire of her eyes. He allowed himself to be weighed in that scale for it seemed the only means by which she had to judge the world around her. So beautiful a measure, he noted, but the scales so dreadfully unbalanced.

All of life is falling. You fall in love, you fall out of love. You fall out of grace, you fall into luck, you fall out of favour. You fall out of one life and into another. You fall on your knees, you fall on your face and when you hit the ground, all your bones shatter and you wish you didn’t have to get up again. Yes, I am very afraid of falling.

remembered the eye in the tent guilt with gold. “Just

While a dragon may be worshipped, she may never be truly tamed.

Perhaps because I can hold up both ends of a conversation and quite happily too. Besides, by talking to yourself, you are guaranteed never to lose an argument and you always have someone to blame when you do.

The gate to hell is flanked by approval and rejection.

Life turned dragons to stone. Stars to ash, gold to coal.

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.

There is no such thing as honor, Captain. There is only desire, and the sorrow that it brings

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

The earth force is a dragon’s best friend, next to wind and fire. The

Women changed their entire lives, embraced it from one stage to the next and emerged stronger, more resilient for the changing. Men, it seemed, strove to keep life unchanging and predictable. No wonder there were more men in prison. Life excelled in disappointing.

Really Ursa, now I see why you wear white.” She mounted her horse in one smooth motion. “Why?” “The blood shows up so much better.