Feast of Souls Quotes

“Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.”
― C.S. Friedman, Feast of Souls

“What is a child?" he asks her.
The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.”
― C.S. Friedman, Feast of Souls

“Have you ever made a flame dance upon a windowsill?” he asks softly. “Or called a lighting bug to your hand on a summer’s night? Have things ever happened because you wished they would, or those who would hurt you gone away suddenly and no one knows the reason?”

The crystalline gaze is steady. “No, sir, because those things bring death. And I do not mean to die.”
― C.S. Friedman, Feast of Souls