Stormsong Quotes

“Aeland is not on a moral path. Maybe it had been in the past. But today? You’re right. We need to change direction. We need to dig deep and determine what kind of country we want to be.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong

“Then there will be blood."

"You fear that. Even though the blood will most likely fall from our veins."

"I don't want any blood to fall," I said.

"It's like surgery," Robin said. "When a patient will die without the surgeon's knife, then you need to cut into the body. Blood falls, but the patient is saved."

"And Aeland needs a surgeon," I sat up. My head pounded, but it was a muffled thump, at least. "To cut out the thing that's killing it. That's what you're saying."

"Do you disagree?"

I didn't dare shake my head. "I don't. But—"

"Every patient fears the risks. And only the worst doctors pretend there aren't any. People die in surgery. It's dangerous," Robin said. "But if you just leave it, the patient will die without that intervention.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong

“Centuries of persecution has been a crisis. Decades of incarceration has been a crisis. Now a storm you couldn’t handle pounded at the door, and you’re talking about a crisis.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong

“But I couldn’t tell him that fear surged in me, chilling my hands and stealing my breath. I couldn’t tell him how tiny I was, how insignificant I felt against the immense, whirling power coming to bury us.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong

“Dorothy Naismith.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong