Kay Solo > Quotes

“She hung tightly onto the book for no other reason than it signified a connection to someone else in the world.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“For all the experiences she had, for all the knowledge she had accumulated over the years, she was back to feeling as though she knew nothing at all. She was a stranger in a strange world, one so infinite and broad in scope that it likely didn't even realize, or care, that she existed.”
― kay solo, Ghost Walk

“She stood upon a cliff of safety and security, one that caused her discomfort but that contained no mystery, and she stood above a great sea that churned and roiled and tempted her. It was an escape, but it was frightening. In the end, all her fears and worries about everything else came second to the fact that all she had to do was decide whether or not to take the plunge.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“Maaya almost couldn’t breathe. She had occasionally passed funerals when she dared to step foot outside town, and she had always marveled at the beautiful speeches people had come up with to honor their dead. But she had never felt so overcome, so overwhelmed by a moment as she did now, all from a unanimous honor given without saying a word. Every light was its own star, each sent skyward from someone with the name of a loved one on their lips or in their hearts. The sky glowed so bright that Maaya imagined this was not just a symbol for one world alone to celebrate; it was a message from one world to the next, where millions of flickering lights from every corner of this side of the earth all joined together in one powerful, silent voice to say: We have not forgotten you.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“I’m so glad," Maaya exclaimed. “It looks like there should be plenty of room for Adelaide and I to hide behind you whenever a pulse comes up."
"Indeed. Just stay behind me, fair maidens, and I will protect you," Saber said valiantly.
"That didn’t take long to go to your head,” Maaya snorted.
"My head is literally the source of your salvation, what did you expect?”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“Maaya let out a breath and shook her head.
"I couldn’t have found a girl with a pet cat or something."
Adelaide leaned over and planted a kiss on her cheek.
"Please. After all you know about me, my giant metal pet spider clock is surely one of the more normal things about me.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“Would you like my advice?"
"Always."
"Go back with her. Go back and face your problems there, and then defeat them. You have someone at your side now you has accepted you for all of your strengths and all your faults, so just as you share in joy, you share in trials. Go back with her and be brave. There are evils in the world, but none too great for the bravery of Adelaide Sol and the heart of Maaya Sahni combined. Of that I am absolutely certain.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“It was the wanderers Maaya pitied. They were the ones who had been dead for so long that they had lost almost all their humanity. Death had ever so slowly driven them mad, trapping them in the in-between they could exist in but not interact with, the place where they could see and hear all that couldn’t see or hear them. Many spoke in languages long dead, if they remembered how to speak at all. In a world full of people, they were utterly alone, and over the centuries and millennia, they became numb to it all.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“Ghosts weren’t inherently mean, but many were standoffish. Many ghosts, after a certain length of time, became used to routine. They stayed in the same places in the same company, and generally had no reason or desire to leave. Beyond that, they were peaceful until disturbed. This was what people didn’t understand about ghosts. Most of them didn’t harbor any ill will towards the living or have some unexplainable animosity toward inanimate objects – they were just stubborn and didn’t like change.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“They worked together in silence for the next hour as Jordan wrote down two different sets of calculations and Emilia wrote in two separate text documents on her laptop. She wished it could always be this way. She suspected Jordan was going easy on her due to the circumstances, and for a split second she wondered if it would be worth finding an actual axe murderer to chase her in the future when things in school got tough. Maybe she could hire one somewhere. There was no way the internet didn’t have any of those.”
― Kay Solo, The Editor

“Inevitably, part of life involves killing off our potential futures. We can be almost anything, but we cannot be everything. These choices are hard not just because we are deciding which way to go, but because we are deciding which paths we will never travel.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame: A Companion Novel to Ghost Walk

“Emilia was suddenly aware of the casual way in which she described her former tutor’s eternal prison to someone who was still getting used to everything in her world. In her defense, after a certain amount of strangeness, it was much easier to be as direct as possible. It made people anxious, but tended to prevent misunderstandings.”
― Kay Solo, The Editor

“If violence is such a bad thing, magic wouldn't make it so fun.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame: A Companion Novel to Ghost Walk

“And no one’s saying you can’t feel shock or grief. It just... needs to wait until the danger has passed. That’s the hardest part: compartmentalizing your emotions when your head and heart are screaming at you do nothing but feel.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“But evil and those who fight it are not the same simply because they employ many of the same tools.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“No longer was this a ship without a crew or destination, another sign of Adelaide's struggles to move forward. It was something to be proud of and she couldn't have felt happier than when she noticed Annayet, the Windfire's very namesake, take in everything she could with unequivocal wonder.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“It was unlike anything Maaya had ever expected, and yet still so much like what she always dismissed as stories. There was no way real life could ever match the pages in her books; that was what she used to think. It was all artistry, all made up by wordsmiths who took a dull concept and turned into poetry, the hopeless ones lost in the throes of young love who though every first kiss was a sign of forever. There was no way a simple touching of lips could mean that much.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“But we must all do what we can. Had you left the task of saving the world in another’s hands – perhaps the hands of someone whose duty it was to do such a thing – the world might remain unsaved. If you see an opportunity to do good, you shouldn’t worry about whether or not you were the one assigned to do it. If you are capable, then the task is yours.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“It's an interesting thing I've learned about people. When they don't know the answer to something, they don't seek out the answer themselves; they just turn to the person they think has it already.”
― kay solo, Moon and Flame: A Companion Novel to Ghost Walk

“I plan on promptly forgetting he exists and going back to my daily life. I didn’t trap him at the edge of the universe so I could go make house calls.”
― Kay Solo, The Editor

“All you said was you followed Montag, then three guys ganged up on you and they’re in your purse now. Which in any other situation would be the strangest thing I’ve ever heard.”
― Kay Solo, The Editor

“I do love good news. You’re fabulous, have I ever told you that?” Adelaide replied happily.
“Frequently, Captain, but the repetition does me well.”
“I’ll continue, then. In that case, let’s get us aboard and set sail!”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Ship: A Ghost Walk Novella

“So, my love, what is it you want to ask me? If you want my hand in marriage I just figured that was an inevitability by this point-"
"No! I mean, not that I don't want... I just haven't... okay, stop. Let me start over.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Ship: A Ghost Walk Novella

“I think eventually they would understand," Maaya continued encouragingly. "I mean, they seem to have gotten better with Adelaide, right?"
"Yeah, well, she's the savior of the world," Marit grumbled.
"I wasn't when I left," Adelaide argued gently. "When I left I was a stubborn, headstrong brat. But I was a confident one. I knew what I wanted and I took it. The only exception was Maaya, where I asked politely.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Walk

“Rich people are a weird bunch. As if we can do something like what basically amounts to an exorcism without getting the rug dirty.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“Now, however, they had something in common. Now they could share in the mutual struggles and joys alike of keeping a safe home for the ones they loved, what it was like to live with others the world looked at the same way. Maaya felt like she was starting to understand what it was like to have created her own little world inside the one that had always looked down on her, and all the good that could come with it.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame

“You aren’t embarrassed as easily as you used to be, and it’s a little disappointing,” Adelaide pouted.
“I know you like a challenge,” Maaya replied, then gasped as Adelaide pulled her in for a kiss, leaning her back and holding her in her arms. Maaya was vaguely aware of an appreciative whistle or two from some bystanders, and felt the familiar sensation of her cheeks starting to burn.
When Adelaide finally let her up, she grinned.
“Oh, darling, you are nowhere near challenging for me just yet.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Ship: A Ghost Walk Novella

“But when people are afraid, there's no thirst for knowledge, only answers; the two are very different things. One is effort and the other is comfort. It's not hard to see why people do what they do. Even when they group together in angry mobs, it's not because they're aimless--it's because that, to them, is their solution.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame: A Companion Novel to Ghost Walk

“Wouldn’t they be mad if we said no? Or if I stayed?”
“I don’t know, but how they feel is irrelevant. You and I have a life to live, and nothing will get in the way of that. Not a death machine, not an entire Selenthian fleet, not a town full of angry and terrified people under the rule of a sociopath, and absolutely not any small-time government official who thinks we’re at their beck and call. We do these things on our terms, and if they want to fight us on that, I am more than willing to take it right to them just like I did with all the others who stood in our way.”
“I guess there are benefits to falling in love with a pirate queen,” Maaya teased, managing a small laugh.
“Pirate queen, huh? I like the sound of that. But what is a pirate queen to do when she’s already found her treasure?”
“Oh, please.”
― Kay Solo, Ghost Ship: A Ghost Walk Novella

“No offense, my dear, but I see that your planning still fails to account for the fact that the average ghost we’re after is the intellectual equivalent of a room-temperature meatball.”
― Kay Solo, Moon and Flame