The Spellcoats Quotes

“And you call yourself a god!"

Tanamil fetched himself up onto one elbow and said, very earnestly, a very strange thing. "I never called myself that," he said. "Neither I nor any of the Undying ever made that claim. It is a claim men made for us, and that is how we came to be bound.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Spellcoats

“Mallard, can you make nets?"

"I made the best nets in Shelling," Duck said. Nothing will ever make Duck modest, but he does make good nets.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Spellcoats

“These," Hern said, "are the bodies of two kings. They were killed in senseless hatred, when both had lost nearly all they had. Someone is coming up the River who knows of this, and it pleases him very much. This will make it easy for him to suck out our souls, and the soul of this land, and rule us as his slaves.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, The Spellcoats