Home > Author > Peadar Ó Guilín
1 " They drink from streams whose waters taste like tears, and indeed each swallow fills them with a few heartbeats of deep sadness. "
― Peadar Ó Guilín , The Call (The Call, #1)
2 " At least half of his hunters writhed on the ground with grubs already inside them, causing horrendous agony. These had to be helped away by terrified Ship People whose courage lay trembling in their hearts as lightly as leaves. "
― Peadar Ó Guilín , The Volunteer
3 " Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing. "
― Peadar Ó Guilín , The Deserter
4 " I've hated some of them too. Most of them sometimes. And they do think differently, but that's a good thing, isn't it? A hand isn't a f-foot, but I need them both to hunt. "
5 " The two brothers looked so alike now and their faces seemed to ripple under the weight of powerful emotions. Hatred, love, violence and fear. The crowd stepped back to form a circle, as though they might be caught between falling buildings. "
6 " His stutter didn't like the idea of wooing and silenced any attempts to broach the subject. "
― Peadar Ó Guilín , The Inferior
7 " She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals. "
8 " Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading what happens in your head and the heads of all the beings around you, now that is difficult. Finding equivalents in one culture for the basic concepts of another - that is really difficult. I say the word vegetable and the translator tells you something like 'edible moss'. So, yes, it's a miracle, but it's a dangerous miracle. It makes you think you understand beasts and you never do. When it comes down to it, you can't even understand your own species. "
9 " There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings. "
10 " She says, "I'm going to live. And nobody's going to stop me." She believes every word of it. "
11 " Plenty come back from the Grey Land with a taste for blood. But any kind of horror will do that for you. It takes decades to breed a war out of a people that went through it. "
― Peadar Ó Guilín , The Invasion (The Call #2)
12 " The redhead shrugs. She doesn't care. And neither should Nessa. Not if she wants to live. "
13 " She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away. "
14 " We could make the thief’s arms longer and put suckers on them like that boy from before, do you remember? I made a trellis of him and kissed you to the music of his tears. "
15 " I am not a cruel man. Not at all! I will pray for you – entire decades of the rosary! Although God cannot hear us in hell. Or is this just purgatory, do you think? With somewhere even worse waiting for us? "
