Spear
Nicola Griffith
Top 10 Best Quotes
“A name, she thinks, is what makes a person who they are. A name is how they know themself.”
“She could speak if she chose, but she was not ready to choose because she did not understand.”
“Being here is like standing at the edge of the sea under a wide sky: clear, open, clean, and bright. Here is where I am meant to be.”
“All different yet somehow alike-not family but easy with one another and loud, laughing and singing, bright and clean. The same bright, the same clean she remembered from the scent of the promised lake. The girl’s heart soared: a story came alive from legend, knights hunting dragons!”
“when the snow begins to fall once again, she catches a flake on her tongue and feels, lapping against her belly, the lake it was drawn from by summer sun, far away—a lake like a promise she will one day know. Then as the world folds down for winter, so too do the girl and her mother, listening to the crackle of flame and, beyond the leather door curtain, the soft hiss of snow settling over the hills and hollows like white felt.”
“You have thrown out a signal bright enough to draw any who can hear and see; now they will be clamouring to enter you, to know you, to have you as a bee might climb inside a flower. And like a bee they will strip you bare and leave you heavy will all that makes you who you are.”
“You get the look of a man haunted by guilt. Anyone might believe you’re keeping a dreadful secret. Well, there is no secret I know of that can’t be helped by food. So for pity’s sake come sit, and while we eat we’ll talk of what’s to be done about Artos.”
“You fight not to take or break but to make.”
“Whoever you are, Peretur, I would have you.”
“When she left it was the last full swell of summer, when apples hung formed but still green from the trees.”
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