Blackflame Quotes

“Don’t worry, I don’t train my students like that anymore,” Eithan said, holding up a bottle to the light. “I was far too lenient before. After weeks of my training, that girl should have been fighting those bears. With her fists.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“The only difference,” Eithan said, “is that you trusted him. Trust comes with time. And during that time, you will clear that course with your Goldsign or I’ll tie you to a string and drag you behind the house like a kite.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“A worry shared is a worry halved.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“I have many plans and many ideas. But I've long believed that it's better for someone to choose their own direction and then accept guidance than to be pushed where I want them to go.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“Soulfire itself, and the process of weaving it from vital aura, gave Lords powers that no Gold could access.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“Oh, Lindon, Lindon, Lindon. There’s a turtle for every Path.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“I myself am considered the eleventh strongest of the Underlords.” He flashed a smile. “But I’m first in charm!”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“The message was audio-only, but it was as though Ozriel was speaking right into her ear. The voice of her friend, full of weary humor. “Suriel. You’re looking lovely today, I’m sure. I’ll get to the point, because I have an unexpected visitor who needs murdered: I did not abandon you. I have identified the sixteen worlds that will be corrupted while I’m gone, and I’ve prepared a facility like this one in each. I’m sure Makiel will send Gadrael, and then you’ll volunteer. If I’m still gone, chaotic interference makes it impossible to predict beyond sixteen, so go ahead and initiate quarantine. I shouldn’t take much longer, unless this actually kills me.” His voice turned serious. “We have to change, Suriel. If I didn’t act, it would all stay the same. I don’t”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“master to step up. A twisting snake shot out from Jai Long’s palm, and she met it with the edge of her master’s sword. Only the sheer quality of the weapon saved her, because she had”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“Remnant pieces.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“River doesn't get too far without banks,” Yerin said. “Out of control, it's just a flood. Spills everywhere. You want it to go where you want it to go, you have to guide it.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“she had to be careful when she opened her wardrobe, so she didn’t strain herself.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“To the nameless minions who give their lives in my books to make the heroes look better. We will always forget you.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“when you’d spent more nights in swordfights than in soft beds, you learned to shove the fear into the dark corner where it belonged.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“When you got swept up in the nets of someone powerful, you didn’t have much left to your name but hope. Hope that they were looking out for you, and not just using you as grain in a mill.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“She’d have been pleased with a few straight answers, but she was used to working without them. Her master treated explanations like they were made of wintersteel and crusted with diamonds.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“I have witnessed the business of the family, and let it be known that I am more than satisfied with our performance. The inner and outer members of the family have honored our name, and our employees have behaved with dedication and loyalty. I could not be more pleased with how this family has conducted itself in my absence.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“The sacred artists here had advanced beyond the need to live off the land. They had bottled up their farmland and taken it with them.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“The Path of the Endless Sword had no defense. Sword aura could not shield her, it could only cut.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“Eithan had been sure he was winning the game, right up until his opponents swept the cards off the table and stabbed him.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“he used a technique to blow a hole in the moon, Eithan would ask why he hadn’t taken care of the sun, too.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“Sometimes the game is rigged against you, and your only option is to flip the board.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“Eithan,” Lindon cut in. “Hmmm. Well, as I was saying: Fisher Gesha, I must borrow your pupil for an hour or six. I’ll return him to you in one or more pieces.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“There’s an old saying about asking forgiveness rather than permission,” Eithan said, “but the essence of it is, ‘I’m going to do what I want.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“And I don’t expect you to understand this, but seeing everything makes surprises so much worse. You always feel as though you should have seen them coming.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“She was perfect.”
― Will Wight, Blackflame

“Are the books...in the walls?” Lindon finally asked. The Underlord clicked his tongue. “What are books but a mechanism to store knowledge? If we have something much more efficient available,” —Eithan picked up the copper ball—“then why would we need books?”
― Will Wight, Blackflame