" There’s still time,” Charlie breathed. He drummed his fingers on the table.
Sigil looked at him sidelong, scoffing. “And how do you know that?”
The priest shrugged, settling back in his chair. He interlaced his hands over his belly, like a man satisfied with a good meal. “The Spindles hold up the realms. We aren’t dead yet, so that’s something.”
“That’s something,” Sigil echoed, shaking her head.
We aren’t dead yet. Corayne almost laughed, and the many long days of travel and toil seemed to crash all at once, a terrible wave. The sea serpents, the horses, the oasis town filled with nothing but ghosts now. We aren’t dead yet, she thought. Weave that into a tapestry, for it seems to be the core thread of this journey. "

― Victoria Aveyard , Blade Breaker (Realm Breaker, #2)