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Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2) QUOTES

Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2) QUOTES

21 " There were advantages to being a dead man. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

22 " Aeduan.” She’d never said his name aloud. She was surprised by how easily it rolled off the tongue.
He looked back, his expression inscrutable as always. But laced with … with something. Hope, she found herself thinking, though she knew it was fanciful.
Aeduan was not the sort of man to ever hope. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

23 " He was younger than Iseult had imagined. No older than twenty, if she had to guess. Yet he felt old, with his voice so gruff. His language so formal.
It was in the way he carried himself too, as if he’d walked for a thousand years and planned to walk a thousand more. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

24 " This young man had stalked Iseult through Veñaza City. Had smiled cruelly at her, his crystal eyes swirling red. Then he had saved her too, in Lejna. With a salamander cloak and a single phrase: Mhe varujta. Trust me as if my soul were yours. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

25 " Fireflies.”

“What?” Iseult splashed upright. Chill bumps raced down her arms.

“There.” Aeduan waved across the pond. “Fireflies. They’re good luck in Marstok, I’ve heard. And children make wishes on them.” There was something light to Aeduan’s voice, as if he …

“Are you making a joke?” Iseult pushed to her feet. Water droplets splattered across the stone.

“No.”

Iseult didn’t believe him. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

26 " No more stalemates because they thought her unqualified and unhinged.
No more tiptoeing around a room because women oughtn’t to run. To shout. To rule.
And above all: no more blighted regrets. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

27 " Someone owed Aeduan a life-debt. It was …
A first.
A first that he didn’t know how to swallow. The Threadwitch Iseult was alive because he had made it so. She could breathe her current breaths and could taste the river’s water because he had saved her life.
Though she had also, in a way, saved his. First, she had not killed him while he lay unconscious in the bear trap. And second, she had been the one to hook them to that stone before the Falls.
But Aeduan decided not to mention any of this, for if the Threadwitch believed she owed him three lives, then that gave him an advantage. That, he could use. He didn’t know how, he didn’t know when, only that he absolutely would. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

28 " Her eyelids fluttered open. Aeduan was still observing the fireflies. “Did you make a wish?” she asked, and to her surprise, he nodded. A curt bounce of his head. “What did you wish for?”

He flexed his hands. Then shrugged. “If it comes true, then maybe one day I will tell you. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

29 " This girl had fought Aeduan—tricked him and broken his spine. She had battled city guards and faced cleaved Poisonwitches head-on, yet never had Aeduan seen her show fear. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

30 " She did have regrets. Thousands of them, and the weight was too heavy for her to keep moving. She was a ship that could not sail, for its anchor—its thousands of anchors—locked it to the sea floor. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

31 " Aeduan didn’t contradict her. She was what she was, and fighting one’s nature only brought pain. Sometimes death too. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

32 " Where are my blades, Threadwitch?" He stubbornly still spoke in Dalmotti.
So Iseult stubbornly answered in Nomatsi: "Hidden. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

33 " He wiped his face on his shoulder, then offered Iseult his hand.

She clasped it tight, her fingers lacing between his. Together they ran. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

34 " It was incredible to watch. Inhuman, really, this gift to heal one’s body. The power of the Void. The power of a demon.
Yet when Iseult glanced at the Bloodwitch’s sleeping, dirt-streaked face, she didn’t see a demon lying limp before her. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

35 " Because it is always easier to blame gods or legends than it is to face our own mistakes. This land is no more cursed than any other. It is simply steeped in too much blood. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

36 " We will need to move fast. Are you up for that?”
She snorted, and when Aeduan glanced back, he found her face had softened. The slightest—almost imperceptible—glint of mischief hovered there now.
“I think we both know the answer to that, Bloodwitch.” She stalked past him, her chin high. Challenging. “The question will be if you can keep up.”
Then she broke into a run, Aeduan broke into a run after her. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

37 " This was not the Threadwitch who had cornered Aeduan beside a bear trap. Nor the Threadwitch who’d sparred with him that very morning. This was a woman changed.
Aeduan knew because he’d been there before himself. Soon she would learn—just as he had—that there was no outrunning the demons of one’s own creation. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

38 " Forever after today, she would flex and furl her fingers, precisely as she did right now. She would roll her wrists and crack her neck. She would stretch her jaw and wonder who might next die at her hands. Who might not get away.
And forever after tonight, she would be hungry to outrun the nightmares. She would race and she would fight and she would kill again, just to make sure the ghosts were real.
They were. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

39 " Nothing negated beauty faster than boredom. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)

40 " Stasis, Iseult det Midenzi told herself for the thousandth time since dawn. Stasis in your fingers and in your toes. "

― Susan Dennard , Windwitch (The Witchlands, #2)