Fen and the Every Path Quotes

“The trick to survivin’ the Every Path is to apply your wit and heart in equal measure—the All-Father’s bound to favor a gnome like that.”
― C.A. Tedeschi, Fen and the Every Path

“Mountain folk have their own code. And they hold each other to it, straightforward like; No beatin’ around the bush.”
― C.A. Tedeschi, Fen and the Every Path

“My Ma, she wanted me to take up a trade. Make your life count for something, she said. Go where the Dwarves are. Now you just try and outwork a dwarf. Might as well dig your own grave!” Trapper tipped up his hat and scratched his greasy head. “I done like she said. I went to Thorbarten. Those Dwarves, they got more-n-enough busy work to go around. But them mountains—always loomin’ in the distance.” Trapper swiped the ragged hat from his head and held it over his heart. “I took to the mountains. Was the splendor—drew me in. Don’t regret it. Never will. But I do find myself wishin’ I had done more while I had the chance. Time is short for my kind. Not so with the Dwarves and the Gnomes.”
― C.A. Tedeschi, Fen and the Every Path

“but as the Hill Dwarves like to say, Hope is a hen that never lays.”
― C.A. Tedeschi, Fen and the Every Path

“It’s a hard thing—outlivin’ your loved ones. Outlivin’ your enemies, now that’s easy. A fella could do that all day long.”
― C.A. Tedeschi, Fen and the Every Path

“Gnomish luck doesn’t work that way. If you want to triumph, first you have to try, and then you have to give it some umph! The luck comes somewhere in between.”
― C.A. Tedeschi, Fen and the Every Path

“If a path ain’t got no heart, you must not follow it, not for any reason—but if it does got heart, then you’d best oblige yourself. On account of doin’ good ain’t got no end. Like a pebble thrown in a pond, one kind act ripples outward in all directions. It affects others—for the betterment. How far the ripple may travel—no one can rightly say.”
― C.A. Tedeschi, Fen and the Every Path