Claudia Maye
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but her mind had no intention of being stilled. It ranged over steep hills and climbed boulders as she chased random thoughts.
“Boredom is anathema to the adventurous spirit, and when mixed with hunger, the effect could be forgot toxic.”
― Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard
― Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard
“... if we walk far but are angry as we journey, we travel nowhere. If we hold grudges as we scale mountains, our view remains the same.”
― Wild Bird
― Wild Bird
“I was of the age when it was natural to seek out a wife, but by then I had seen tasking women promised to tasking men, and then seen how such “promises” were kept. I remember how these young couples would hold one another, each morning before going to their separate tasks, how they would clasp hands at night, sitting on the steps of their quarters, how they would fight and draw knives, kill each other, before being without each other, kill each other, because Natchez-way was worse than death, was living death, an agony of knowing that somewhere in the vastness of America, the one whom you loved most was parted from you, never again to meet in this shackled, fallen world. That was the love the Tasked made, and it was that love that occupied my thoughts when time came to tend to Maynard—how families formed in the shadow and quick, and then turned to dust with the white wave of a hand.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“You can't skip to the end of the story just because you're tired of being in the middle. You'd never survive.”
― Middlegame
― Middlegame
“Our character isn't defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.”
― Serafina Boxed Set [4Book Hardcover Boxed Set]
― Serafina Boxed Set [4Book Hardcover Boxed Set]
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