The Blood King Quotes

“Oh, there are little rhymes a mage might use to remember the sequence of what must be done, but the words themselves don't do a thing. You could write every 'spell' as high as a man on the barn wall, but if you don't have the power to start with, all you'd have is a strange rhyme. And a bad one at that".”
― Gail Z. Martin, The Blood King

“All things fade in time," the vayash moru replied. "But even faded, there are those things that death itself cannot erase.”
― Gail Z. Martin, The Blood King

“Soldiers know better than anyone that you can't take tomorrow for granted. All you have is today. I guess that's all we ever have, but most of the time, we're not aware of it. It's not too late. Stop running away, and let him catch you.”
― Gail Z. Martin, The Blood King

“Just when I get some answers, I find out I wasn't asking the right questions..”
― Gail Z. Martin, The Blood King

“On one side of death, a person is alive. And on the other, only the spirit remains. But death itself? It's only the somewhere between awake and asleep.”
― Gail Z. Martin, The Blood King

“Can you fight like a predator without becoming an animal, without hurting your enemy the way he has hurt you, and thus becoming him?”
― Gail Z. Martin, The Blood King

“It's as if we're each followed by a dragon, Tris, made up of those fears and those old wounds. And if you don't turn and face your dragon and call it by its true name when you're young and strong, then when you're old and weak, it comes by night and devours you in your bed. You've faced your dragon," she said quietly. "You know the price of your worst fears. You know now that the future isn't certain. And as a Summoner, you know that death itself can't sunder love.”
― Gail Z. Martin, The Blood King