95 Quotes by Michelle Paver

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.

There’s always a choice,? said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.

Sometimes there’s no warning. Nothing at all.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That’s how it’s always been.

Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you’re afraid, you’re on your own.

Three weeks after New Year, she lost her faith. It happened quite suddenly. She simply woke up and it was gone. As she lay in bed it occurred to her that between religion and superstition there was no difference, since both were based on unreason. To kill a man to redeem the sins of others was as irrational as tapping a hole in one’s eggshell to stop a witch using it as a boat.

It stood. It faced me. Dark, dark against the sea. I saw its arms hanging at its sides. I saw that one shoulder was higher than the other. I saw its wet round head.

You can’t fool the Angry Ones, Telamon. You can’t fool your Ancestors, either. Your father knows what you did. – Hylas.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that’s chance?