# Dreamsnake

- Author: [Vonda N. McIntyre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre.md)
- Quotes: 5
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake

## Quotes

> The intensity of Melissa’s loyalty troubled Snake. She had never known anyone who was so completely oblivious to self-interest. Perhaps Melissa could not yet think of herself as someone with a right to her own dreams; perhaps so many of her dreams had been taken from her that she no longer dared to have them.

p. 224

> If you want to. That’s the important thing. For you to do what you want to do. Not what you think anyone else wants or expects you to do.

p. 205

> He seemed to be so used to having his own way that he could not deal with bad fortune.

p. 109

> “It’s impossible to protect anyone completely without enslaving them. I think that’s something you’ve never understood because you’ve always demanded too much of yourself. You blame yourself for your sister’s death—”
>
> “I didn’t watch her carefully enough.”
>
> “What could you have done? Remember her life, not her death. She was brave and happy and arrogant, the way a child should be. You could only protect her more by chaining her to you with fear. She couldn’t live that way, not and remain the person you loved.”

p. 74

> It was not fear that kept them from misusing what they had. It was self-respect.

p. 267