Heather Fawcett Quotes

It's a dangerous path you're following."
I gave a short laugh. "There are no safe ones, where we're going."
He gave me another look. "But that doesn't trouble you, does it?... When you get to be as old as me, you start to recognize certain kinds of people."
"Kinds of people?" I repeated, nonplussed. "What kind of person am I?"
"The kind that seeks out danger.

Why do you fear me, brave one?

I blinked. Standing there, I thought I would have felt joy, or astonishment, or even terror, gazing down at the world so far away. Instead I felt a weary relief, like that which followed putting your feet up after a long day, or completing a chore. I was left with only the feeling that something had ended.

And then I came to a place where the mountain stopped. Where there was nowhere else to go.
I had reached the summit of Raksha.

And I'd like you to speak to the herdsman about borrowing another yak. I don't like the looks of the one your father offered. The way it stares at me, it's as if it's plotting something. I don't travel with plotters. Thieves, liars, cheats, that's all right, but I can't stand plotters."
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"Finally, see if you can find me a good ice ax. I lost mine."
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"You lost your--"
"A yak trampled it on my last expedition. Snapped it in two. Did you hear what I said about choosing your yak carefully?

Is Tsering's familiar as bad-tempered as Ragtooth?" I said.
"No," Mara said. "Tsering is a steady sort of man. A familiar's temperament seems to reflect that of its master."
Tem seemed to smother a snort. I glared at Mara, replying in a dignified voice, "I haven't heard that to be the case.

Through my tear-hazed vision, the sky seemed bright-too bright. The stars were dancing. My head ached as I tried to take it in-the battle we had fought, the city smoking below me, all the wandering light in the sky above.

Only you could climb the highest mountain in the Empire, hunt down a fallen star, and escape the Fifth Army without a trace. - Tem, to Kamzin

Choosing to lock yourself up in a life that doesn't suit you is its own sort of death, wouldn't you say?

Mara," Lusha said slowly, "what was River hiding?"
"He's not human, Lusha." His face was blank with shock. "He's a witch.

Night is when wild animals prowl the shadows. When criminals go about their work, and dark creatures stir. Night is danger.

No help for death. No use for tears. Tears will not bring back friends.

Now I was heading home. But after that, there was nowhere I couldn't go.

They always choose heroes - that much is clear… Wind demons.

The best explorers make the night a little brighter.