Ashley Finn Williams > Quotes

“They reached the cliffs by the time the sun began to rise and Ayohka sat for a moment, taking in the haunting orange beauty and feeling more at peace with the world around her than she ever had before. The country air was full of the morning's first rounds of birdsong. On its breezy arms it carried the smell of sap–rich pines and blooming wildflowers. The past was the past. The future was hers.”
― Ashley Finn Williams, Finding Ayohka

“Never doubt yourself. It is a weakness others will seek to take advantage of often in life. - Chieftain Anekyo of the Adoeette Nation”
― Ashley Finn Williams, Finding Ayohka

“Let me go Nello! He deserves everything I give to him!” Ayohka was fuming, drowning in her own rage. She vented steamy breath from her nose and held her jaw clenched hard enough to create a visible outline on her cheeks.

“But why?” Nello raised her brow and pulled harder. “Because he was too much of a cowered to stand up to his Pa? I'm just a dumb kid but that makes no sense if you just stop and think.”
― Ashley Finn Williams, Finding Ayohka

“A strange, deep roaring sound akin to a giant rusted train horn filled the air suddenly, shaking eyes and eardrums as it passed. Kedaya froze up in her place and appeared ill. She looked to the east and started walking backward. “I've heard that sound before. Let's not go that way, okay?”

Ayohka swallowed her fear and grabbed Kedaya's shoulder. “What the hell was that?”

Kedaya pushed away from Ayohka and shook her head. “Let's just say that big lizard is an absurd understatement, and I've got no idea how these Bukwas plan to deal with it without getting eaten.”
― Ashley Finn Williams, Finding Ayohka

“Pity them if you must Ayohka, but these monsters came here with greed and hate in their hearts. Murder was on their mind when they got out of their beds in the morning. They forfeited their own lives when they chose to wage war on the innocent people of this city. Those who surrender will be jailed without harm, but that is my only mercy. - Tsonoqua, Queen of the Bukwas Sasquatch”
― Ashley Finn Williams, Finding Ayohka

“Qi is life, spirit. It is light and lightning. It is the wind and the quaking earth and the raging storm. It is the great universal energy that permeates all things, places, and peoples, and shapes the threads of destiny that they may grasp upon. - Son Wukong, Heir of Hanuman and King of the Vanara”
― Ashley Finn Williams, Finding Ayohka

“From the ground Walter watched as little plumes of bone–dry dust rose up around his father's footsteps, a stark reminder of the dying plot of land that had never been properly tended to, even in the best of times. He watched the little plumes of dust get cloven in two by the spurs of his father's boots and pictured each one as something else the man that he saw as a monster had thoroughly broken. The laws of the land. His mother's heart. Hannah's spirit. And now, Walter's own will.”
― Ashley Finn Williams, Finding Ayohka

“I beg you, every last one of you, to open your hearts and cast away any ill will toward those who don't quite look like you. Though some may be the progeny of wicked and faithless hearts, and some may yet hold the same prejudices as their own forefathers, remember that not one body of people exists as a single monolith, but a collection of many different stones rolling either up or down a hill and ushered on by one or more boulders much more impactful than themselves. - Chieftain Wahchintsapa of the Kaga Nation”
― Ashley Finn Williams, Finding Ayohka

“Wendigo snarled and threw a handful of gravel up at Nello that clattered musically against her chest plate, but he made no effort to stand. He closed his eyes then and lay there laughing like a man insane. “Mara's out there! Your daddy's gonna burn! You're all going to burn beneath the shadow of her wings!”
― Ashley Finn Williams, Finding Ayohka