The Tower of Living and Dying Quotes

“kill you. But that … The god thing dived. Blazing golden. Pure pure perfect perfect life and hope. Marith killed it down with one blow.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Tower of Living and Dying

“A few soldiers down in the fighting. They cut the throats of two on watch duty. A third’s alive but only just.’
Marith considered very briefly. ‘Kill him.’
‘I assumed you’d say that. He’s only just alive because he’s got the blunt end of a sarriss stuck three feet up his arse.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Tower of Living and Dying

“They would bury his father, kill his brother and his stepmother. They would marry and he would crown her as his queen. And then perhaps he would have some kind of peace.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Tower of Living and Dying

“Never go up against a drink-and drug-addled death obsessed invulnerable demon with a pet dragon. Old secret sellsword's wisdom, that.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Tower of Living and Dying

“mountains, who can say what is out there, to take away our memories of pain? To give us new things. New life. The Emnelenethkyr, they are called. Which means, in Itheralik, the Empty Peaks. For we who are burdened by our pasts, surely a good name?”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Tower of Living and Dying

“Sorlost. I did not wonder at the blank broken faces that came to me, laid themselves before my knife. I see it now in Tyrenae, and I begin to understand it. Blind children and madmen go begging in the streets here. The wealthy look at them and turn away and do not care.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Tower of Living and Dying

“A single ray of sunlight broke through the clouds. Shone on Marith’s silver crown.”
― Anna Smith Spark, The Tower of Living and Dying