Trail of Dead Quotes

“It’s funny, but finding out that Hollywood movie monsters were real never shook my convictions. If God could create a platypus, why couldn’t he create a vampire? If AIDS could exist in God’s kingdom, why not lycanthropy?”
― Melissa F. Olson, Trail of Dead

“The good ones, anyway. I used to keep all of them, but with digital photography it’s just too easy to fill up even the biggest hard drives with”
― Melissa F. Olson, Trail of Dead

“Scarlett”
― Melissa F. Olson, Trail of Dead

“I sighed. That was the ironclad argument of every single person who’d ever done something bad and kept it a secret. I’m not ready.”
― Melissa F. Olson, Trail of Dead

“Here. The witch carves a word in the clay right here, and it’s like the stamp of the command spell. In the example I used before, the witch would carve the word banana. If the task is directed at a person, it’s a name, like Denise or Scarlett. The word is the permanent change; it’s what allows the golem to act even in Scarlett’s radius. If everyone is standing next to Scarlett, Mallory wouldn’t be able to give the golem a new command. She needs to channel magic for that. But if she gives the golem a command outside Scarlett’s radius, the golem can follow through within it.” “Unless I remove the word?” Jesse said. “Exactly. Take away the word, you take away the command. No command and no magic means no golem. In theory the thing would just…collapse.”
― Melissa F. Olson, Trail of Dead