The Burning Tide Quotes

“Being a leader is often difficult. It requires that you continually put the needs of others before your own desires.”
― Jonathan Auxier, The Burning Tide

“I’m sorry. I don’t know any more.” Niri shook her head, staring up at them. “But I do know that if you fail, everything is lost.” Rollan scratched his head. “No pressure.”
― Jonathan Auxier, The Burning Tide

“creaking voice whispered beneath his feet. “She’s right here, birdyboy.” The voice was so close to Rollan that he immediately shouted out in surprise and leaped clear off his seat, fumbling for his dagger. The bowl of stew that he’d been holding flew up into the air and landed with a loud slosh! right on his head. Rollan spun around, staring at the person who had spoken to him. It was an old woman with cracked, leathery skin, laughing with a huge toothless smile. She was lying on the ground at his feet, arms at her side. Her white hair was tangled and greasy, hanging limp from her thin face. And her eyes … were gone. Where two eyes should have been there were only soft dents in the flesh—as if someone had sculpted her from clay and forgotten that one feature. Rollan wiped fish stew from his face, still breathing heavily. For the third time in less than an hour, he was surrounded by laughing Redcloaks. He glanced down at Essix, who seemed similarly amused. “Very funny,” he muttered, flinging boiled fish guts from his cloak. “Sorry to have startled you, birdyboy,” the old woman said, then sniffed the air. “Or is it fishyboy? I can’t tell for sure.”
― Jonathan Auxier, The Burning Tide

“So you all get to pick secret names?” he said. “Can I request that people start calling me Handsome?” “Most names are based on our spirit animals,” said another Redcloak woman with black, hungry eyes that reminded him of a bat. “So maybe we should call you Featherbrain?”
― Jonathan Auxier, The Burning Tide

“Kovo lumbered past her, right to Conor, and gave the boy a “tap” on the side of the head with the flat end of his mallet. The boy fell back to the ground—unconscious but otherwise unharmed. The Great Ape then turned toward Meilin and made a smug gesture with his hands: “Problem solved.”
― Jonathan Auxier, The Burning Tide

“What if Kovo doesn’t want to help?” Abeke said. Shane met her eyes. “Then we’re all as good as dead.”
― Jonathan Auxier, The Burning Tide