# Quote — Vonda N. McIntyre, Dreamsnake

> 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.

- Author: [Vonda N. McIntyre](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre.md)
- Book: [Dreamsnake](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake.md)
- Page: 224
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vonda_N._McIntyre#Dreamsnake_(1978)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake/the-intensity-of-melissas

## More from this book

> 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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake/if-you-want.md)

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

p. 109 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake/he-seemed-to.md)

> “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 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/vonda-n-mcintyre/dreamsnake/its-impossible-to-protect.md)