Sam Gayton > Quotes

“The only thing lonelier than travelling is standing still.”
― Sam Gayton, The Snow Merchant

“Love makes things possible, not easy.”
― Sam Gayton

“It was an experiment, I suppose.”
― Sam Gayton, The Snow Merchant

“I'm a sailor, Lettie, I go where the wind takes me. And it led me to you, didn't it? I was born ten thousand miles away, but the wind brought me to Barter, and now we're friends. We're on this boat for a reason.”
― Sam Gayton, The Snow Merchant

“That is the thing about families. Like snowflakes, they are each entirely different and yet all exactly the same, and though they are innumerable upon the Earth, the loss of each one is a sorrow.”
― Sam Gayton, Hercufleas

“Lettie Pepeprcorn!' She hissed. 'Stop worrying and do something useful.”
― Sam Gayton, The Snow Merchant

“I should have never left the inn,' she whispered. 'I shouldn't have done it!'
There was something in the ground that Ma had warned in her note. It was real. And Lettie hadn't listened, and now this...”
― Sam Gayton, The Snow Merchant

“She trailed off. Hercufleas waited. He saw her unpacking the grief from her heart, all the sorrow and hurt, arranging it into a story. Something she could bear to tell.”
― Sam Gayton, Hercufleas

“Maybe. Just maybe... Lettie smiled. That would do. It might be an impossible plan but it's worth a try.”
― Sam Gayton, The Snow Merchant

“But... it's one of those laws of the universe, isn't it? Nothing stays the same. Things change.”
― Sam Gayton