Deadhouse Landing Quotes

“Xethel laughed again, though rather nervously this time. ‘Then I name you Amman-an-ash. The One Who Would Know Everything.’ She nodded in Dancer’s direction. ‘And you I name Coth-tel-ish-ath. The One Who Watches and Judges.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“The superstitions of the ignorant are no concern of mine.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“Messinath of Purge,”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“You are standing for admiral of Malaz, are you?’ Kellanved inclined his head. ‘I am.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“whisper came to her then. A story she’d heard long ago from a fellow Azathani. That Edgewalker had tired of his guardianship and had been searching for a worthy inheritor all this time.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“Geffen waved him down, as if he wasn’t worth his time. ‘I’m taking it, arsehole.’ He marched off. Cowl watched him go, murmuring, ‘I’m not talking about the Hold, fool.’ Lee hesitated. ‘The house, you mean … you gonna try to enter it?’ The mage’s gaze remained aside, following Geffen. ‘Someone will, and soon. It’s in the air.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“What killed them?’ The youth shook his head again. ‘Oh, no. Most of them are still alive.’ He pointed to the grounds. ‘They lie imprisoned below. The structure is holding them there – perhaps using their might to defend itself.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“For if the Azathani were regarded as strange and alien by the humans they now walked among, the Azath structures constituted an order far beyond even them.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“And infuriating as Kellanved was, he had to grudgingly admit, with some surprise, that he was the best friend he had ever had. Perhaps the only, barring Illara.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“It struck Dancer that Shadow seemed nothing more than a gigantic mausoleum or trash heap of time and history. As if all the moments hidden by time in the world he’d left behind were all naked here, exposed and visible.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“Emurlahn is broken, shattered. Perhaps one may think of it as a repository of all the shadows of everything past and future, now spilling over and jumbled.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“And everyone in Quon Tali knew Malaz Island was nothing more than a pirates’ nest;”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing

“A rather arrogant beggar – you are nothing without your precious title.”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Deadhouse Landing