The Seaglass Stair Quotes

“Growing up learning of distant lands and their bloody histories, Wareska had quickly noticed how pointing to someone else as unquestionably worse was a widely common justification for many atrocities.”
― Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair

“:I am Topaz,: the unicorn on the hill haughtily announced, :and this is my vale.:
:I was not aware unicorns could own vales,: Wareska linked.
The unicorn stiffened, and even from this distance, Wareska could see her bright, golden eyes narrow dangerously. :Now you know,: she said with quiet menace.”
― Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair

“Shadowmane sighed as well. :We had better do what this Topaz commands. Unicorns are jerks when they don’t get their way.:”
― Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair

“I know nothing of magick,” the naked man said to the raven, “except what you told me.” He laughed sadly. “And I barely remember that. I tend to drift off when you ramble.”
― Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair

“Wareska laughed sadly. “There is no reason to apologize. I want you as you want me . . . and I think you know that.”
― Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair

“:Wait for me here?:
:Until the moon crumbles into the sea,: Shadowmane whispered.
Wareska laughed again. :Always so eloquently dramatic.:”
― Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair

“:The way to the Seaglass Stair will be long and arduous. There will be those who wish to stop you. They will kill you to keep you from succeeding.:
:Why? That’s insane.:
:As if insanity were some fabrication, some dark tale Hemfra told you one night when you were a child and refused to sleep. There will always be resistance to anything and everything, defying all logic, all natural sense of self-preservation. There will be those who wish for you to simply let the world fade away. It is the way of humans to be illogical for the sake of personal conviction and made up nonsense.:”
― Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair

“:No,: Wareska said at once, :we should go back.: She heard the horse laugh softly into her mind.
:Wareska,: he said in amusement, :it is not like you to ever look back.:
:I look back when sense dictates.:
:It is hard for horses to look back. We don’t really have shoulders. I guess we look back over our butt?:”
― Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair

“:Do you trust me?: Wareska quietly linked.
:To stay alive? No. You and the monster will get lost in riddles and philosophizing. Then you will make some grand, heroic gesture, poorly thought-out and overestimating your own strength, and when the creature has roasted you alive, I will be the one sweeping up the ashes – figuratively speaking, of course. Lest we forget, I do not have hands.:”
― Ash Gray, The Seaglass Stair