Ghostwater Quotes

“...I'm not a pie-construct, am I? What I know about pie could fill a...a little...the tiny scoop you use to eat soup.” “A spoon?” “No, that can't be right. That's ridiculous. Spoon. Get out of here with your nonsense words.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Some believe that hope is the strongest force in the universe,” Dross said. “Although that is objectively untrue.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Every morning, he would bring her a boulder and have her try to cut it in half with the Rippling Sword. Every morning, she failed, and he took the stone away, only to bring a new one the next day. She’d thrown her training sword aside in disgust. “I can’t do it,” she had said. “Been waiting for you to say that,” he’d responded. He had taken her to a cave behind a waterfall, where he had kept all of the stones she had tried and failed to cut. There were the marks of her failure: slashes in the rocks where her madra had cut. The scars started faint, but they got wider and deeper. And the stones got bigger. “This is what you did yesterday,” he’d said, pointing to the largest rock, the one with the deepest cut. “I can’t wait to see what you do tomorrow.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“You’ve got quite a complicated soul, don’t you? Two cores, I feel like that’s an unusual number. And I can see your face so much more clearly now! It’s…well, at least you have a wonderful spirit. Yes, indeed. That spirit of yours, wow.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Wow,” Dross said in his head. “Roomy in here. Were you born with two extra-large cores? I'm sorry, that sounds rude. But do feel free to answer.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Truth does not care for your feelings”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“He had taken her to a cave behind a waterfall, where he had kept all of the stones she had tried and failed to cut. There were the marks of her failure: slashes in the rocks where her madra had cut. The scars started faint, but they got wider and deeper. And the stones got bigger. “This is what you did yesterday,” he’d said, pointing to the largest rock, the one with the deepest cut. “I can’t wait to see what you do tomorrow.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Then the sky had turned red. He and his fellow servants had taken shelter in the cold furnace, huddling together for days before the earth stopped shaking”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Mercy winced. “When I was younger”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Your weakness, Lindon, is thinking you are weaker than you are.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Those are high-quality rocks.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Then the sky had turned red. He and his fellow servants had taken shelter in the cold furnace, huddling”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“sputtering”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Lindon looked toward the trees, opening his spirit to feel for Yerin’s presence. He felt only a flash of power as a black-and-silver blur crashed into him. He stood his ground as Yerin threw her arms around him, squeezing him so tight that his ribs would have cracked a few weeks before.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“What a spine that took, to shake swords at a girl in chains. They had better hope she didn’t remember their faces.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“What do you call that feeling she was having?” Dross asked. “Grief,” Lindon responded absently. “I don’t like it,” the constructed decided. “It’s too heavy. Go back to the one with the man who had just cured his daughter’s disease.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“See,” Dross said from his outer robe, “you’re not being stealthy at all. What you’re doing there is being loud. You see? You see the difference?”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“I know it’s just a bow, but I call her Suu.” Mercy patted the bow on its dragon’s head. “Good girl, Suu.” The bow hissed.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Once, you were weak. That boy is long dead, but his Remnant still haunts you.” He turned to drink from the Life Well. “Your weakness, Lindon, is thinking you are weaker than you are.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“But yes, as they say, she was crazier than a nest full of squirrels.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“The prize is an illusion,” he continued. “The mountain has no peak. You keep climbing and climbing until you fall off and break yourself at the bottom.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“The strength of an offensive Path, like the Path of Black Flame, was its ability to put pressure on the opponent. Without that pressure, he would crumble like a dry leaf. And now she had him on the back foot.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“You look at the purpose of your Path and you cultivate techniques to accomplish that purpose. You do not neglect one-third of your abilities because the other two-thirds seem easier to practice.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“When your opponent defends, he is not attacking. And the first mistake he makes will be his last.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“They would be cleaning up the aftermath for years to come.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“Longhook's long hook”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater

“It's like when humans share blood.” “Humans don't share blood.” “They should.”
― Will Wight, Ghostwater