Quotes from Alethea Kontis

For some heroes, nothing is impossible

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

Her heart was an invalid convinced that it would not survive many more sunsets.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

Any other brushes with insanity you haven't thought to mention?

I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.

There are many things wrong with you. A hangover just isn't one of them.

People were supposed to cry at weddings; they just weren't supposed to cry because they suspected that the bride was going to die.

Adventure is the vice of all Woodcutters.

Even the harmful and awkward and stupid things?" asked Sunday. "There are reasons for those?" "Especially those." said Joy.

We're needed to save an innocent barrel of wine from a lecherous duke's son.

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.

Child, no one is ever ready for anything. I would never doom you to that. What sort of adventureless life would that be?

And because he had food, she followed him.

Saturday's goal was swordsmanship decent enough to get her hired on the first caravan out of this magic-drenched insanity.

It was a melancholy day indeed when the sister of solitude was Sunday's silver lining.

no one is ever ready for anything

Perhaps her giant bright-eyed sister had finally come to put her out of her misery just when things had gotten interesting.

If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.

They know their crime," she said. "They know their shame.

Oh! I thought you were the man with the dress." "He could put one on for you," said Velius. "He's got the legs for it.