# Quote — Tanith Lee, The Birthgrave

> We are the sum of our achievements, nothing more and nothing less. The mountain road which led us here was built by a dead people none of us would remember otherwise. What we create is the only part of us which can survive, or has the right to. Man is nothing, except to other men.

- Author: [Tanith Lee](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee.md)
- Book: [The Birthgrave](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave.md)
- Page: 303
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave/we-are-the

## More from this book

> “All my life,” I said, “knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.”

p. 379 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave/all-my-life.md)

> “When will they fight?” I asked.
>
> “Tomorrow. Daybreak. It is man’s work.”
>
> I laughed. “I too have fought and killed, Kotta. It is the work of fools, not men.”

p. 333 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave/when-will-they.md)

> Vazkor had picked his creatures well—narrow, unintelligent men, good fighters, unafraid because they had no imagination, loyal because they responded to their own sense, and until now, there had always been enough food and wine, women and prestige; trustworthy in this last extremity because the old order had been good to them, and Vazkor seemed able to restore it.

p. 305 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tanith-lee/the-birthgrave/vazkor-had-picked.md)