Colleen the Wanderer Quotes

“But why do you visit what you left behind, now that you have reached what you left all this to find?” “What?”
― Raymond St. Elmo, Colleen the Wanderer

“Fairness and Commerce are an old married couple that never consummated their arranged marriage.”
― Raymond St. Elmo, Colleen the Wanderer

“She stepped within by slow steps, letting eyes adjust. The cabin was large, with several round windows grimed with dust. A table to one side where plates still rested, clumps of rot implying a meal never finished. She looked about for candles or a lantern, something to make a light. But of a sudden, two lights glowed of their own volition. Casting no illumination, for all they were bright and white as angelic wings in a stained-glass depiction of the Upper House. Two eyes, set at feline slant. They blinked once in solemn greeting. Behold a cat, black as night in the deepest pits of Nix. The creature perched upon the table and pondered Collen, who stood fixed; still as stone, still as mouse in cat’s gaze. At long length the cat spoke, voice high, words clear. “Found you,” said Shadow Night-Creep.”
― Raymond St. Elmo, Colleen the Wanderer

“Colleen shook her head. The cat had a manner of talking that combined a pompous uncle’s lecture with a relic-monger’s sly patter. She pondered pushing it back into the well. The cat sighed for the shadow of her ignorance in the sunshine of its tutelage.”
― Raymond St. Elmo, Colleen the Wanderer