Storm Child Quotes

“Cheobawn froze. The Dark of the Moons. Spider’s children knew of this time as well. It was the one night, in spring, as the snows melted from the high places, when the double moons stayed hidden from sight. It was the night that only occurred every thirty years, when Spider’s children awoke in their shells buried in the warm sand of a thousand nameless beaches on the shores of a thousand nameless seas on a thousand nameless planets. It was the night they remembered that they needed to go home, home to the shallow, salty ocean named Orson’s Sea by a race of humans who had thought themselves immune to the rules of the patterning of the place upon which they stood.”
― J.D. Lakey, Storm Child

“The pain and exhaustion of her body dropped away from her mind as she gathered the energy of the world and let it fuel her body. She forgot Seawind’s enmity, the Hunter in the forest, the Coven’s need to lock her away, and the possibility of her own death. It was just her, her two short sticks, the boy in front of her, and the dance between them. Serenity filled her, the motions of the sparring match an art form of perfect symmetry.”
― J.D. Lakey, Storm Child

“That is why Packs are forever. Because we remember too much of that pain, so we build a family that is bonded with ties stronger than blood kinship, bonds that should never be broken.”
― J.D. Lakey, Storm Child

“You are the Black Bead.” “I am a warrior with weapons. Defend yourself.”
― J.D. Lakey, Storm Child

“What did you learn, Little Father?” Cheobawn asked, catching her breath. The boy scowled at her. “It was not a fair fight. Your magic was stronger than mine.” Cheobawn snorted and jabbed him in the chest with the end of one of her sticks. The boy flinched. “Try again. You lost before you even raised your sticks. Do you know why?” she asked. The boy stared at her sullenly. “Because you forgot that without this black bead in my omeh, I am a Little Mother just like any other Little Mother, flesh and bone, just as you are. Fight the man, not the illusion.”
― J.D. Lakey, Storm Child

“We stand upon the field of battle, out in the open, visible to all our enemies, and we wait, because there is more power in standing still than attacking prematurely.”
― J.D. Lakey, Storm Child

“But mostly she was tired of being cut off from the part of herself that existed in the ambient. She would never be whole, always stuck inside her skull as she was.”
― J.D. Lakey, Storm Child

“You seem to be getting better, if the dogs are any indication,” Zeff said wryly. “What do they know,” she sniffed. “I am still going crazy.” “Perhaps,” laughed Zeff, as he pulled a bowl off a shelf and went in search of flour, eggs and milk, “but dogs cannot live in the past or the future so they do not understand insanity.”
― J.D. Lakey, Storm Child