The Harbors of the Sun Quotes

“And “weak” wasn’t really the right word for what Shade meant. What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn’t have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have. There wasn’t a word for that in Raksuran or Altanic or Kedaic or any other language Moon knew. Moon said, “It’s not weak.” The”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun

“Jade turned to Malachite, incredulous. “We’re going to help them fight off a Fell flight.” Malachite didn’t take her gaze off the sky. “I am.” A growl rose in Jade’s throat. She shouldn’t have been surprised. The bloodline resemblance between Moon and Malachite was particularly strong, though Moon couldn’t see it. And you have five of them back home in the nurseries, she reminded herself.”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun

“And “weak” wasn’t really the right word for what Shade meant. What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn’t have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have.”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun

“What he was trying to say was harder to express. It was giving in to feelings other people thought you were supposed to have about things that shouldn’t have happened to you in the first place, but were not like the actual feelings you did have.”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun

“If you weren’t entertaining a dozen different possibilities and probabilities at once, what was there to think about?”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun

“He wanted to give her a chance to yell at him in private before he apologized.”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun

“Moon had the feeling Stone was inadvertently teaching the kethel how to be sarcastic. That wasn’t going to work out for anybody.”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun

“They spotted another ruin in the late afternoon, this one just a huge, partial circle of metal standing on its side, mounted in a stone base, with weather-worn designs embossed into what was left of the rim.”
― Martha Wells, The Harbors of the Sun