Quotes[edit | edit source]
Volume 7[edit | edit source]
- (To Magnolia) “Hah! An honest Reinhart. Will the world survive such a thing?”
- (To all the Ladies) “I had a name, once. A nickname. ‘Lady Firestarter’. That was what they called me, when I was a girl. But only I remember why. Yet, for a moment, let me be her again. Goodbye, all of you. I hope you live the lives you want.”
- (To herself) “How inelegant. How—rude. She is the rudest [Lady]. But the Reinharts are. She could have lit a flame. But the Deadly Flower of the North just pricks with her thorns.”
- (To the adventure groups) “Selphid? I’ll trade kisses for drinks with Antinium or Goblins!”
- (To Olesm & Berri) “I will not let you give her money for an accident and a crime I didn’t commit. I did nothing wrong. I demand that you arrest me, Strategist Olesm, or resolve this. Because this is not justice.”
- (To Olesm) “You do the best job you can in your position, and you inform those above you about what you can’t do. You don’t do nothing and wait for orders. If that’s how you act, you don’t deserve to even follow.”
- (To Lyonette) “No. Be kind to them, Lyonette. Not gentle. They may be poor embers, but everyone has a spark. You just need to find it. Magnolia tends to no flames. But they might surprise you.”
- (To Olesm) “Olesm. I mean to give you fire. Me meeting you was fate. I want to believe I was sent here to help you learn to…burn. You were a faded ember when I found you. All I did was light your fire.”
- (To herself) “What a dangerous girl. She has both flower and sword in either hand.”
- (To Mrsha) “Hit me and you’ll regret it. Let that be a lesson to you: kindness opens more doors than rudeness.”
- (To a Raskghar) “We won’t kill you? You stupid thing. You don’t matter. You’re not going to be a good slave, are you? You want to eat Gnolls. But that won’t happen. We’ll pluck your teeth out.”
- (To the people ) “No one will harm you. Not in this garden! Not in this inn! Haven’t you seen worse? Haven’t you defeated worse?”
- (To Lyonette) “If you say I’m ‘like Erin’, I’ll have to slap you. Olesm says it all the time. I was here first. Erin copies me.”
- To Erin:
- “Erin, you are no [Lady]. Not of royal blood. Nor are you a leader of a city or own a large area of land. But you are a leader of people. Drakes have few nobility. But in northern Izril—this is what we do. The nobility. This is what we are meant to do. More than squabble and amass our fortunes. When there is a problem—the nearest [Lady] or [Lord] solves it. You have solved so many of Liscor’s issues, accidentally or intentionally. And you wonder why they look to you now?”
- “It seems you have, with my Skill. Why not? You’d be amazed at how many problems I solved in my youth by burning something down.”
- “Take the damn fire already!”
- To Ryoka:
- “I do apologize that my death cannot be delayed for your party, Miss Griffin. I have tried to make arrangements for my demise, and I have too much yet to do. But a party is not high on my list of priorities.”
- “Ryoka Griffin. Why? The Drakes just attacked the Antinium. Wistram is taking what I now know to be children from another world. The Meeting of Tribes is about to begin and the King of Destruction has awoken. The Death of Magic returns on Rhir. Why do these fae matter?”
- (To herself) “Thoughtless girl. Headstrong, always rushing about. No plan other than to run and hope it works out.”
- To Desinee:
- “Desinee El. I should have known my family wouldn’t be content to let me die without haunting me to my grave.”
- “He wants advice? Tell him to figure it out! Either it works or it doesn’t. Just don’t get people killed. So long as you do that, it works out.”
- “And then tell him the reason doesn’t matter! If he moves—if he fights—do it with a damned plan! Ryoka Griffin—Deilan is twice her age! But you’re both children. If you are going to dare this Circle, do it with a plan or not at all!”
- (To Ryoka) “You simple idiot. You gigantic fool. You courageous child.”
- (To Erin) “Erin Solstice! You will someday find your path! You will find your own flame. But today—I will do what you cannot. Look upon me and see what my life was, my heir of fire!”
- To Saliss & Ryoka:
- “I forgot something. At some point, I grew old. And I thought, ‘this is the way the world is.’ Do what I can. Keep my House alive, but cease trying to change. Of course, the young woman was a fool. She thought you could burn it all down and build something out of ash. Have you ever tried that? Neither old nor young is entirely right. But one needs both.”
- “You brave, sad Drake. You gloriously foolish girl. I told you, you need an army. But how would you know? Neither of you were born of the north. I have the knowledge—all I lack is the will. The audacity.”
- To all listeners:
- “I have given my life for Izril! My brother fell defending our home and I have carried his memory in me! I burned our foes to ash! My House has given its lives a hundred, a thousand thousand times to defend this land! I did not spend every year and second of my life to see my home fall to rot and cowardice!”
- “Rise, for the House of El! Wake, stone! Rage, listeners! For pride and justice!”
- “To arms! Deliver the cure to the House of Veltras! I call you to take up arms! Rally, for the honor of the Five Families! For Izril, ride with me!”
- To Ryoka:
- “I was just napping for a second! Respect your elders and betters, brat!”
- “I called you many names, Ryoka. You were a silly girl for how you did it. But the why? The courage to do so?”
- “I understand everything about why you ran.”
- “Oh, brave girl, you are too kind for this. Ryoka. Carry us with you forever. I hope you meet your friend. Now—run.”
- “Run, Ryoka Griffin! Deliver Izril’s honor back to it! Deliver life! Run, and don’t look back!”
- (To [Assassins]) “This is my death! You come for me, shadows of Izril! Yet I am Izril’s fire, today! You cannot put me out.”
- (To Flame Elementals) “Ride for the House of El! Wake, stones! Fight, children of Izril, for your honor! For your dignity! For the land where we die!”
- (To herself) “Not here? Not yet? Where am I supposed to die?”