Explore Quotes by David Clement-Davies

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

Now go away, or I'll get my friends the Bats to bite you.

Stones are raw, they blunt my paw, but words will never hurt me.

Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always fear." "But why must I fear him?" asked Rannoch. "Because, my little one...man is cruel and cold. He eats up everything he touches. He enslaves Lera and breaks the laws of the forest. Because, Rannoch, he is the only creature that hunts without need.

Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.

It's those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

Wolves hate farewells.

Death,' whispered Tarlar, 'you do not fear it, Fell? By water, or any other way?' 'What is to fear?" answered the black wolf. 'If it is an end, then so be it. For there is no pain in that, except the pain left to the living... And if death is not an end, then what more than a wonderful journey.

I wish the battles of men could be solved in their heads.

But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.

...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.