What Stalks the Deep Quotes

“That is very horrifying and I want to go home," I said, although I pronounced it, "Ah. I see.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“Sometimes when people hurt for a long time, they start to think that hurting is part of who they are. And then anything that helps the hurt, even healing, feels like it’s trying to strip part of them away.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“Rules of life,” Angus said. “Be true to your friends, don’t cheat at cards, don’t piss on the less fortunate, and don’t steal other people’s skeletons.” “You just added that last bit now,” I said. “Obviously should’ve been there all along.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“We have a saying in Gallacia: “When the wolf bites your heart, don’t wait for him to shit,”
which means, “If you’re scared of doing something, don’t put it off.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“One American can really fill a room. I assume it only takes a hundred or so to really fill a country.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“I wasn’t thrilled about it, but frankly, I had been tired of explaining matters a decade ago, and by now I had approached a kind of transcendent exhaustion.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“That is horrifying and I want to go home,” I said, although I pronounced it, “Ah. I see.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“My only defense is a fundamental belief that dogs are inherently good and Thunder must therefore be good and if he hadn’t liked me”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“Ingold got the hunted look of a man trying to explain psychology to an alien jellyfish creature. (It’s rare, but you know it when you see it.)”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“I pulled out my lighter and flicked my wrist to snap it open and light the flame in one motion. (If you do it right, it looks very suave. I used to practice it for hours as a teenager, in hopes of impressing girls.)”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“The way he pronounced dark as dahhhk was so pure that I had an involuntary urge to snatch up the teapot and find a harbor to dump it in.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“Dread slid cool fingers up my spine.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep

“(That'll be our new family motto)
Seems a shame to come all this way and not at least look around.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Stalks the Deep