The Unspoken Name Quotes

“Nothing in this world has earned the power to frighten you, Csorwe,” he said. “You have looked your foretold death in the face and turned from it in defiance. Nothing in this world or any other deserves your fear.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“She told him the plan. It was loud and dumb and very likely to hurt, so, of course, he agreed.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“No hard feelings, you piece of shit.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“Sethennai had put on some kind of rosewater scent and worn his collar unbuttoned. Tal hadn’t retained much information.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“Didn’t they teach you how to steal a ship at wizard school?”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“Tal never took one bite of a bad idea without polishing off the whole chunk. He winked at the boy.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“How unfair it was for someone to survive the vengeance of their god and then suffer like this at the hands of someone so mortal, so essentially small.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“Nothing in this world has earned the power to frighten you, Csorwe," he said. "You have looked your foretold death in the face and turned from it in defiance. Nothing in this world or any other deserves your fear.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“Much is lost, but much lasts. . .”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“It had been Zhiyouri's own prejudice, perhaps, to see Sethannai's Oshaaru sword-hand as a ruffian first, and only to realise after the fact that she was also a girl Shuthmili's own age; more specifically, a girl with bright eyes, long limbs, and a graceful confidence of movement that spoke of high training and commitment to practice. Zhiyouri could guess very well how it had been”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name

“Whenever she had been happy - with the Blue Boars, with Shuthmili - she had given it up for him, a man who valued her as a sharp edge and gave away her secrets without recognizing what they were.”
― A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name