Dean F. Wilson

“Sometimes all the players get a bad hand. You just have to be determined enough to see the game through.”

“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise difficult to address. On one hand a good book helps us escape our troubles, and on the other hand it can help us face up to those troubles by bringing real issues to the fore, often in a more manageable way, since the problems are experienced vicariously through the eyes of another.”

“He could feel the Great Iron War coming to an end now, but he no longer had his finger on the button. The curtains of the world were about to close, and the play of life would soon be over. There would be no applause.”

“Fear is leaden. Courage is golden. Let go of the weight of the world, and you will fly.”

“Jacob studied the iron graveyard, where every vehicle was its own gravestone. He drove slowly through, as if he was afraid to wake the dead. That was not it though. The general made it clear that they should fear the living.”

“A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.”

“There are always periodic opportunities to give up, while every single moment is an opportunity to persevere.”

“Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.”

“That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.”

“It was as much a battle of wits and words as it was of mitts and swords.”

“Darkness gathered there, smothering out the sunlight. As the fleet headed towards it, it threatened to smother them too.”

“The thought had crossed my mind, that in order to save this world from Hell, I might have to become the Devil.”