Whit Stanfield > Quotes

“I burned for you as we stood under that altar. And I've been burning for you since.”
― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Song and Sirens

“If his eyes were any further apart, he’d be an herbivore,”
― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Song and Sirens Book IV: The Final Chapter

“That’s almost as comforting as the story of the bat-shit lava woman.”
― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Song and Sirens

“I'm the witch of Leihani.”
― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Song and Sirens

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― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Song and Sirens

“Not far from us, Maren and Diara trickled through the streets, chatting just loud enough to hear the overlap of their voices. Womanly subjects, I was sure. Like murdering men with arrows and stopping hearts with blood and exploding a poor bastard’s testes, judging by the glimmer in their eyes.”
― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Fate and Starfire: The Final Chapter

“You snake,” I whispered.”
― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Song and Sirens

“think maybe all kings go mad. I don’t think they can help it. All that power in one person’s hands—I think it’s more than any one mind can handle. Somewhere along the line, kings believe they’re gods.”
― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Wrath and Scoria

“slapped his thigh at me in an invitation to sit on his lap.”
― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Song and Sirens

“Maybe that’s why we fall in love, whether human or Naiad or a flame plucked from the stars. Not because love makes us strong. Because it allows us to be soft. I once might have greeted Death like a challenge, an opponent to be conquered. But I’d run with Death across the sky, and I knew he was a friend. Life was made of finite single seconds strung together, each precious from the first to the last. And if these were my last, I’d waste them in his arms, unafraid to fall apart in the safety of his body.”
― Whit Stanfield, A Sea of Fate and Starfire: The Final Chapter