The Sea Eternal Quotes

“Life! - Life, its sea and sky, the heat of blood and breath. Life: In it was every color, was the weight of brick on brick and foot on stone, was hunger and thirst and shivering from rain, was swifts and seagulls and dragonflies and sand, was meat, was bread, was salt. Life, my life, my sight and taste and touch, the only things I had that were mine alone, that had come into the world with me and that when I left the world would never be again. Heart and lungs, hands and tongue, elbows and teeth and liver and cheeks and spine and breasts and brain, those parts of me that had not been thrown to the winds with my sister or the ashes of my friend, the heavy animal parts of me that every minute sang the oldest hymn: I want, I want, I want to live. Despite it all, I want to live.”
― Emery Robin, The Sea Eternal

“I'm afraid that it's too late for us,' she said. 'That there was a moment, back when - oh, I don't know, when you came to me in my barge at Plyusna, when you kissed me the night after Ceirran died. When I rolled out of the carpet. Perhaps we will be great, you and I. But I'm afraid there was a moment when we might have been wise enough, or kind enough, or brave enough, or good enough that we could have seen our way to being happy. Happy for eternity.”
― Emery Robin, The Sea Eternal

“Do you ever feel that the world's used up?' she said. 'That our father and their fathers had the fat of it, and left us the bones. And when we tell our children that this was how we lived, they won't know what we mean. And the days are growing short again.”
― Emery Robin, The Sea Eternal