Best 9 quotes of David Bowles on MyQuotes

Don’t accuse others of eating when juice smears your face-fur.

In the place of the bells, where battle is waged, The reeds all lie broken in Chalco today. Dust yellows the air, our houses are smoking, The sobbing is rising—from the lips of your Chalcans!

It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more. It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man had discovered fire when lightning stuck and set a tree or two alight, but he was clumsy and greedy and stupid and could not keep the flame alive

Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him? In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief. Love. Love was what drove him.

Retreat is brave when you steal a great prize from your enemy's hands.

Shadows and light deceived us, but sounds we followed true.

This fifth and final sun will die, Like every sun before— But for a moment we laughed in its light, Like wind-blown petals Sparkling near an exile’s campfire Before the flames take them.

When wounds are healed by love, The scars are beautiful.

Who could truly set His shield to rest? His throne? His mighty spear? Think on that. Remember it well, O princes. Who could lay waste to Tenochtitlan? Who dares assail the foundation of heaven?