Of Sea and Shadow Quotes

“While Honor has never won a single battle, Deceit wins wars.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“He always wanted everything to change. So boring. So what if he turned all shoes into ducks? If shoes were constantly turning into other things, then it wouldn’t be anything special when they eventually started quacking. No one would even notice.  Change was only interesting when everything normally stayed the same, and Tharlos could never understand that. That’s why he would never beat her.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“Kanatalia, the Guild of Alchemists, performed experiments on the inmates of many Imperial prisons, especially those who had committed higher crimes. They would attempt to increase docility, prevent a return to prior behavior, and generally improve the prisoners by means of altering their bodies and minds. By means of poking and prodding. By means of needles, and potions that burn, and tools that cut memories like paper. They’ll take their subjects apart, stick them back together, and then cut them apart again. Over and over.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“They are older than we are,” her father had once said. “Wiser, stronger, more intelligent than all of mankind put together. That is why we must be so careful. The lies we tell ourselves are what allow us to perceive the world at all. Crack those lies, and the human mind is like an egg with a cracked shell.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“You can be free, it said. You can be made anew. Your husband doesn’t understand who you are? You can change. Or you can change him. Rebirth comes for all.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“There was a hat rack in the corner, but he kept his hat on. Thus do I strike a blow against my enemies.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“If there was one feeling that Calder knew with intimate familiarity, it was the sudden panic of finding himself in over his head. The result of his lifestyle, he supposed; he had spent much of his life leaping off ledges without looking. It was only natural that a few of those ledges would turn out to be cliffs.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“He rose to his feet, pulling a coat out of the chest. Anything would do; it wasn’t what he wore that would make an impression on these people, but the way he acted.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“That sounded good, when he put it like that, but it didn’t feel like enough. He should have run straight after her, not played a game of ‘wait and see.’ He hadn’t had any idea where to go or what to do, but at the moment that felt like the flimsy excuse of a child caught in a lie.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“There were many ways he could imagine himself dying, but starving to death while lost in a hallucination was among the worst.”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“What would it take to break through almost two millennia of indoctrination?”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“I’ve”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“There was a hat rack in the corner, but he kept his hat on. And thus do I strike a blow against my enemies. Kerian”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow

“On his chiseled actor’s face, Naberius’ expression of confusion looked like it had come off of a classical painting: Portrait of a Hero in Distress, perhaps. Distantly,”
― Will Wight, Of Sea and Shadow