The Starving Saints Quotes

“A miracle so profound may be indistinguishable from horror.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“Death does not come all at once; it leaves many of us in the sunlight behind, to grapple with a loss that comes seemingly out of order. Our own rhythms distract us from the procession.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“Her rigid certainty that, for better or worse, the world endures human suffering. That it is worth it, to restore order, instead of breaking and beginning anew.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“Horror,” Treila offers, “shapes character. And it did happen.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“How do you untangle madness from reality?”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“I thought,” Phosyne says, slowly, “that you might not mind my death.” Voyne scowls. “You are mine to care for,” she says, too quickly.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“There are worse things,” Ser Voyne breathes, “than that.” “What?” Treila pushes. “What can be worse than what we are driven to, when all else is lost? Doesn’t it all become the same, then?”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“But time is inexorable, as is the human stomach.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“Voyne has marched across every mile of the king’s land. She has led armies to great victories and called for desperate retreats. She knows that, realistically, there may be no winning move here.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“She can trade one escort for another. A king is not so different from a madwoman.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“They are packed in one atop the other; a castle meant to hold at most three hundred for any length of time now shelters three times that. Every nook and cranny is full to bursting of terrified farmers and a pitiful handful of overwrought knights. They’ve been living in this unbearable press for almost six months now. It’s a testament to Ser Leodegardis’s leadership that they’ve lasted this long, that the siege outside their walls has not broken them, that plague has not crashed down heavy on their heads. But time is inexorable, as is the human stomach.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“I have never in all my years," the prioress says at last, voice grudging, pained, "seen any indication that the Lady or Her attendants give a single shit what happens to her worshippers. And I can't believe She would choose to start here, now, with us.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints

“A miracle so profound may be indistinguishable from horror. Phosyne certainly feels horrified.”
― Caitlin Starling, The Starving Saints