Sarah Tolcser > Quotes

“Something inside all of us is always calling out to the world...That's what magic is. When something in the world calls back.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Magic doesn't make a man evil,' he said. 'It's just a skill. It isn't inherently good or bad. It's what's in his heart that makes him evil, the same as anyone else.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“A heroine is always someone who wants out”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“The god at the bottom of the river speaks to wherrymen in the language of small things”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Do not fight... For I am an untrained shadowman. I shall do something stupid and most likely explosive if you lay hands on me. Put down your weapons... Please." - Kenté
"Please?" - Caro”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Sometimes," he said with a wistful smile, "we need others to see the good in us before we can see it in ourselves.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Akhaia must be a wonderful empire," I said. "I guess that's why little bits of it keep cutting themselves off to become independent.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Power is a touchy thing. You can use it to crush those without it, or lift them up. It's a choice.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“It was easy to feel alone in that kind of dark.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Words can be weapons too.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Sometimes when your fate comes for you, you just aren’t looking. But you always get a second chance.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Whisper of the Tide

“A proper pirate ought to have a pointed beard or an earring, but he had neither.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“To a captain, a ship is...more than just something that carriers cargo from place to place. To someone who loves her, it don't matter if she's old. Or her decks aren't tidy. Or her paint is chipped." I placed my palm flat against the warm deck. "When you see her, with her sails standing high against the sky, it's like being punched in the chest. For a moment you can't breathe. Her beauty strikes you that hard. You understand the life in her, and it calls out to you. That's when you know you love a ship. That's when she's yours.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Dead by pirates or dead by shipwreck is still dead.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Who ever tried to kiss a girl because she's capable?"
He shrugged, giving me a lopsided smile. "My world is full of useless people.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“This was what I hadn't understood before. You had to know what you wanted - but knowing wasn't enough. You had to be willing to fight for it. To be so strong even the sea could not defy you. That is how strong we must be, to keep the things we love.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Whisper of the Tide

“Everyone who's ever read a story knows there is no better way to ensure that you are swallowed up by a drakon in the last chapter than to say there's no such thing as drakons.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Someone knows I'm not dead," I murmured.
Kenté's voice was sober in my ear. "Someone, I think, who very much wishes you'd stayed that way.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Whisper of the Tide

“To look upon the sea and try to understand it is to try to know the unknowable. It can't be done. Gazing out into the sea's vastness, I felt a hole at the bottom of my heart. And yet I thought the sea understood that. It knew emptiness. It knew despair. It echoed mine, throwing it back at me with the splash of the waves. Everything was rolling and lashing and gray, gray, gray.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Never go three hundred years without rum, girl." He slapped his knee. "Now is that a piece of advice or what?”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Maybe we can leave things behind, yet still hang on to the best parts of them. The parts that matter.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“I couldn't figure out when he'f become so important in my life. It was like trying to name the moment you learned to breathe air.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“Something inside all of us is always calling out to the world." She shrugged. "That's what magic is: when something in the world calls back.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“What I wouldn't give," he said softly, "to feel like that again."
"Like what?" I couldn't help asking.
His voice was hoarse. "Like the world was new.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Whisper of the Tide

“To look upon the sea and try to understand it is to try to know the unknowable. It can’t be done.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“What did I ever do to the gods," he growled, "to deserve being stuck on a sinking ship surrounded by girls? It's like - like being in a brothel," he said darkly. "Only not in a fun way.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Whisper of the Tide

“Don't matter how rich you are, nor how great. Everyone turns to dust eventually. Everyone and everything.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Whisper of the Tide

“Sometimes," he said with a wistful half smile, "we need others to see the good in us before we can see it in ourselves.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current

“But it wasn't like weights balancing on a scale. People were not exchangeable like coins. Even if he saved a hundred lives, that didn't truly make up for the fact that he'd taken so many others.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Whisper of the Tide

“Algo en nuestro interior siempre esta llamando al mundo. Eso es la magia: Cuando algo en el mundo responde a tu llamado.”
― Sarah Tolcser, Song of the Current