Pirateaba > Quotes

“I am the consequences”
― Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn: Volume 6

“Somehow, having a staring skeleton standing in a dark corner staring at her was even worse than having it right next to her.”
― Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn

“But one moment stood out to me, as I sat beneath a dark sky full of stars and retold a moment from the Lord of the Rings. Trick memory. It was just one conversation in a three-hour long film in a quartet of movies, but I’ve always remembered it. “And Gandalf paused, and spoke. He looked at Pippin with a smile, and said ‘End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.’ And Pippin said, ‘What? Gandalf? See what?’” I look around. My audience is spellbound. I take a breath. “‘White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.’” As I finish speaking, I look up, about to finish the scene and describe the Rohirrim coming to Gondor’s aid.”
― Pirateaba, Fae and Fare

“What was the saying about lemons and life? If life gives you lemons…burn down the lemon factory? Something like that.”
― Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn

“And the Goblin archer’s head disappears. Not disappears in a cute way like he ducked down or he fell over. No. The entire neck and skin pulls away as a massive jaw closes over his head and rips his head clean off.”
― Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn

“I’m no mage. But I understand bullshit quite well.”
― Pirateaba, Fae and Fare

“Something. Anything. Give your time to someone else to talk, give a bit of trust, or a helping hand. Give them a second, and maybe you'll get something back.”
― Pirateaba, Winter Solstice

“Some weeks some months some years are bad ones, but it can take just one day to turn it around. One day or a story.”
― Pirateaba

“Stories. They don’t mean much to people who don’t listen. But to some, they mean everything.”
― Pirateaba, Fae and Fare

“My heart is large enough to suffer a thousand insults, but too small to accept the loss of one friend.”
― Pirateaba, The Last Light

“Hey, it happens to all of us.” “Did it ever happen to you?” Erin had to think about that. “No. But it’s nothing to be ashamed of. Anyone would freeze up if a horrible zombie tried to eat their face.”
― Pirateaba, Fae and Fare

“Erin panicked harder.”
― Pirateaba, Fae and Fare

“I will not scream. I may excrete all my bodily waste, however. Is that acceptable?”
― Pirateaba, Blood of Liscor

“Erin grows on you like a mushroom.”
― Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn: Volume 8

“Sometimes you can’t solve other people’s problems even if you want to. Sometimes people have to go through their struggles alone.”
― Pirateaba, Blood of Liscor

“This did feel like the good old days. And it turned out that the good old days weren’t that good.”
― Pirateaba, Blood of Liscor

“was a novel experience, mainly because they weren’t trying to kill her, and she was only contemplating doing that to them.”
― Pirateaba, The Last Light

“I don’t even know what it means to be human. All I know is that there’s a big hole in my heart. Because Klbkch and the Worker died. I don’t know who I am or what I’m doing. I’m just—sad”
― Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn

“Thus, the legendary tale of the Wandering Inn began.”
― Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn

“She ran with the speed of panic.”
― Pirateaba, Rains of Liscor

“He had half a mind to simply blast her into little pieces, but it was a very small half.”
― Pirateaba, Fae and Fare

“I note these swords are not reacting despite their apparent enchantments. May I hold both, or will I burst into flame and die in excruciating agony?”
― Pirateaba, The Last Light

“It wasn’t bravery or bravado. It wasn’t the thrill of battle, but the will to survive.”
― Pirateaba, The Last Light

“The purpose of secrets is to prevent change. Because the secret is kept, the world remains the same. That’s why you keep a secret. When you use it is when things change.”
― Pirateaba, The Empress of Beasts

“How do you define Ryoka Griffin? An equation? (|Perfection| – Social Interaction) + Anger + A Bit of Magic = Ryoka Griffin? Or is it— (|Perfection – Human Interaction | + Rage + Loneliness) + Another Chance = Ryoka Griffin?”
― Pirateaba, The Wandering Inn

“There was always something to do if you looked for it. That was the curse of command. The more you could do, the less time you had to do it.”
― Pirateaba, The Wind Runner

“If we knew everything, what would be the point of anything?”
― Pirateaba, Rains of Liscor

“Sometimes, you could shape or be shaped just by loving.”
― Pirateaba, The Wind Runner

“Either you took a risk and died or became famous or—you worked hard and kept your head down.”
― Pirateaba, Flowers of Esthelm

“Family. It was a strange word. Some might have said it couldn’t ever apply to them. That they were too different. Too alien, too strange. That there were too many secrets and differences to ever bring them together. But that wasn’t what made a family. It was just being willing to try.”
― Pirateaba, The Wind Runner