Spider Wars Quotes

“A thought that had hatched in the back of her head during her conversation with Sigrid tumbled out of its shell into the front of her brain and grew wings, now a fully fledged plan.”
― J.D. Lakey, Spider Wars

“Do not be in such a rush to grow up.” Cheobawn opened her mouth but found nothing to say to this. It seemed a nonsensical thought, that she could influence her own growth. Her thoughts and her psi were not her own to keep small, just as she could not keep her brain and her body from growing, as much as she wished otherwise. Was she a plant, to be stunted by binding her roots or denying her light?”
― J.D. Lakey, Spider Wars

“Youth offends by its very nature and Elders offend because they forget what it is like to be young.”
― J.D. Lakey, Spider Wars

“Ah, my mistake,” she said. “They are all there but they are hiding. The Void of the Hunter hangs over them. The animals of the Waste will not dare the ambient until it has passed.” The Void was a hunting skill perfected by the apex predators of the Highreaches. It was a psychic trick, an emptiness meant to entrap the unwary or ensnare the weak-minded.”
― J.D. Lakey, Spider Wars