Trip Galey > Quotes

“Deri was well and truly caught, a fly in the web of words and wonder spun by the actors on the stage.”
― Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

“So, tell me the story,’ Owain said after they had stood in silence for a while, looking at the top of the Grove through the Fog.

Deri’s first thought was to ask what Owain would offer him for it. His second was to just name the price as one kiss, willingly given. He went with his third impulse: just tell the bloody story.

But tell it well.”
― Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

“But it was humbling. Awe-inspiring, even. There was a gravity about the stone, a surreal sense of vastness. And the resonant sense of lost love, the sheer depth of it reverberated through the stone, reaching out to Deri across more than a millennium, an echo of shared humanity knifing into Deri’s core.”
― Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny

“May I kiss you?” Owain’s voice was just a slip of silk in the dark.

“I think you’d better.”
― Trip Galey

“Woven of wise women’s insight and young men’s dreams, of societal expectations and half-moon’s beams, Maurlocke’s robe habitually changed its form to match the expectations of the merchant’s customers.”
― Trip Galey, A Market of Dreams and Destiny