Moon and Flame Quotes

“She stood upon a cliff of safety and security, one that caused her discomfort but that contained no mystery, and she stood above a great sea that churned and roiled and tempted her. It was an escape, but it was frightening. In the end, all her fears and worries about everything else came second to the fact that all she had to do was decide whether or not to take the plunge.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“But when people are afraid, there's no thirst for knowledge, only answers; the two are very different things. One is effort and the other is comfort. It's not hard to see why people do what they do. Even when they group together in angry mobs, it's not because they're aimless--it's because that, to them, is their solution.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame: A Companion Novel to Ghost Walk

“It's an interesting thing I've learned about people. When they don't know the answer to something, they don't seek out the answer themselves; they just turn to the person they think has it already.”
― kay solo, Moon and Flame: A Companion Novel to Ghost Walk

“If violence is such a bad thing, magic wouldn't make it so fun.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame: A Companion Novel to Ghost Walk

“Inevitably, part of life involves killing off our potential futures. We can be almost anything, but we cannot be everything. These choices are hard not just because we are deciding which way to go, but because we are deciding which paths we will never travel.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame: A Companion Novel to Ghost Walk

“No offense, my dear, but I see that your planning still fails to account for the fact that the average ghost we’re after is the intellectual equivalent of a room-temperature meatball.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“Rich people are a weird bunch. As if we can do something like what basically amounts to an exorcism without getting the rug dirty.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“And no one’s saying you can’t feel shock or grief. It just... needs to wait until the danger has passed. That’s the hardest part: compartmentalizing your emotions when your head and heart are screaming at you do nothing but feel.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“Now, however, they had something in common. Now they could share in the mutual struggles and joys alike of keeping a safe home for the ones they loved, what it was like to live with others the world looked at the same way. Maaya felt like she was starting to understand what it was like to have created her own little world inside the one that had always looked down on her, and all the good that could come with it.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“No longer was this a ship without a crew or destination, another sign of Adelaide's struggles to move forward. It was something to be proud of and she couldn't have felt happier than when she noticed Annayet, the Windfire's very namesake, take in everything she could with unequivocal wonder.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame