Bound and Tide Quotes

“It was so spectacular, in fact, that the spectacle itself was best left unwritten, just like the exact cost of a ship or a complicated prophecy. Sometimes one just must imagine.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Bound and Tide

“Xander was left with his own reflection grinning back at him ridiculously. He looked like an idiot, but what did it matter? He was happy, and sometimes happiness just looked like that—”
― A.K. Caggiano, Bound and Tide

“It’s for you,” the boy told him with eyes unblinking, the apprehension there unique. “It’s written in Old Key. It says, see one jackdaw but know there are many. Mom used to say that to remind us we weren’t really ever on our own like how birds…you know, they flock together?”
― A.K. Caggiano, Bound and Tide

“And he too would gladly see to her needs, to serve her because he wanted to, and be cared for in return because that was what love did. Love made one wild and free but safe and sincere too, and it overcame birth and duty and even hopelessness because, in the end, it was the most transcendent of virtues, and even a villain understood that.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Bound and Tide

“It was unfortunate for Evangeline that she found men to be both endlessly annoying yet achingly desirable.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Bound and Tide