Call of the Bone Ships (The Tide Child, #2)

by R.J. Barker

He only knew that once the words were spoken he wished he had not said them, but knew he could no more have escaped saying them than he could have stopped breathing.

“Ah, Meas, you wish peace for all, but can you never be at peace yourself?”

“Sometimes, Aelerin, I am wrong, and know I am wrong, and still I do not act because it is easier not to act.”

“Maybe that is the true nature of prophecy – we can only change what is within our reach. So do not worry about the gullaime, do not worry about their prophecy. Hold close those you care for. Worry only about tomorrow, and the day after. Think not on the day after that for we fly a ship of the dead, and the Hag calls us all. To plan far ahead is to ask for the Maiden to thwart all you are. We live in the now. We fight for what we believe is right. We can do nothing else.”