The Poison Song Quotes

“What you brought back, darling, was the truth. Which is rarely comfortable and never painless, but often, ultimately, worth knowing.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Beginnings and endings, flesh and bone, ink and paper. These are what stories are made of.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“This war. There is so much sorrow, so much pain.’ ‘That’s all war.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Stay strong, my bravest, dearest friends. We fly as one.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“When your world has been at war forever, how do you know peace?”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“All of us back together under the same roof - that’s a bloody good end to this mess if you ask me.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“A fire that burns in secret, a lethal conflagration that you can only discover when its too late to save anyone.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“This level of fuck up is an Eboran speciality.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Fear can keep you obedient, or the need to stay as free as you can.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“You”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“That particular monster can fuck right off.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“This is dangerous. But our lives are dangerous. They always have been. I tell you it is possible we could do this, and destroy the worm people.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“Because whoever it is, I’m sure I’ve already forgotten them. I can barely keep track of your brief human lives, you know here one moment gone the next. I should keep a list, so I can tick the names off as they depart.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“I’d burn the bloody tree down myself if u thought it would bring you back’ he said quietly. ‘Everything is so hopeless anyway, why shouldn’t we be happy for a bit? We could have don’t that, couldn’t we? I think so it would have been messy but… Instead my mind gives me this’ He gestured around at the dream desert, the dream sky. ‘A fucking dream of you. As if that would be enough.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“I can suffer all that, I can suffer it and come through stronger, a weapon forged for your hand, but I cannot abide inefficiency.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song

“All people need, in my experience, is a little push in the right direction. Or a giant kick up the arse. I am always happy to provide either.”
― Jen Williams, The Poison Song