First Rider's Call Quotes

“They come in injured and mangled, we put them back together, then they stand in my halls making demands. A thankless lot to be sure.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“But he's the king!”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“Who knows what the citizens of Darden may be saying ten years from now about the girl who rode to town in her nightgown.”
“They’d say nothing if you’d drop it,” Karigan said. Then the terrible thought occurred to her that this accursed incident might be the one thing in her entire life that anyone remembered her for. Her life’s legacy.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“I can only use my imagination.” Bard shook with laughter. “My, but it makes an amusing picture—and tale.”
“Don’t you dare!” She wouldn’t put it past Bard to make some outrageous ditty of it. His talent for fashioning absurd lyrics was going to drive the more conventional masters at Selium out of their minds.
“There once was a girl from Corsa,” he began, “who rode a big red horsa—”
“Ugh!” Karigan scooped up handfuls of pine needles from the ground and tossed them at him.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“Let the children enjoy what they have before they become too burdened with the cares of adults.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“Only experience, she had learned somewhere along the way, led to wisdom.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“otherwise something worse than death awaited all who remained: loss of free will. To give up would have been to dishonour those who had perished fighting for the good of all the lands. In their deaths we found the spirit and courage to go on. It gave us new purpose.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“something worse than death awaited all who remained: loss of free will. To give up would have been to dishonour those who had perished fighting for the good of all the lands. In their deaths we found the spirit and courage to go on. It gave us new purpose.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“In the center of the dome, in a sky of midnight blue and silvery constellations, the god Aeryc, with crescent moon balanced on his palm looked upon the Riders with beneficence and approval.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“How could she make amends without knowing for what? She guessed she would never know, unless he chose to talk to her. She wanted to reach out to him and try to settle the matter, but it was difficult right now with them so far apart.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call

“Expression, voice, and even gestures can tell one much that is not revealed in words.”
― Kristen Britain, First Rider's Call