The Wingfeather Saga, by Andrew Peterson - Quotes

      I decided to do what I did with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (review here, quote collection here) and put together a quote collection from Andrew Peterson's The Wingfeather Saga, as a follow-up from reviewing it on Tuesday. Enjoy!

The cottage was rather plain, except for how comfortable it was, and how nicely it had been built, and how neatly it was kept in spite of the three children who lived there, and except for the love that glowed from it like firelight from its windows at night.

"Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own."

"Jouncey as a two-ton bog pie!"

"Your grandfather has a plan." Nia laughed, a welcome sound in the dark. "Or at least he's in the process of making up one."

Ancient secrets lie beneath these stones and cities. They have been lost to us, but still, we mustn't let them fall to evil.

        "Let him come. I'll skewer him like a daggerfish."

After a moment, Glag said, "Do you mean, you're the daggerfish doing the skewering, or do you mean you'll skewer him like he's a daggerfish that you're trying to stab in the river?"

       Sneem cocked his snaky head sideways to sort out the question. "Either way, the Florid Sword gets skewered, don't he?"

        "I sssuppose," said Glag, "but it might be harder to stab him if he was swimming about in the water like a daggerfish. Them are fast. But if you was the daggerfish, you'd just leap out of the river and jab him, right?"

         Sneem thought about this for a moment, then said, "I'll get 'im. Like a fish."

"So you're goin' to try and save 'im, then?"

"Yes ma'am. I have to. I'm a Throne Warden."

"Well done, little warriors!"

"When it rages enough, hate doesn't need a reason. It burns for the sake of its own heat and devours whatever, or whomever, is set before it."

Rudric cleared his throat and struggled to look Nia in the eye. "That didn't go as I had hoped."
"Little does," Nia said, looking away,

        "Imagine that you're on the battlefield armed with -- yawn -- arms. You're fighting someone, and they're fighting back. There's a big fight. That's what happened in the War of 189. It was, as I said, terribly exciting." The man looked at his notes. "Very well. Moving on."

         In this manner they learned about the War of 189, the Famine of 235 ("Imagine that you're very -- yawn -- hungry"), the Ridgerunner Raid of 274 ("Imagine some things to do with raiding, guildlings") and the Apple Riot of 312 ("Imagine it, " was all he said before informing them that they'd be tested on it next week).

Janner heard Artham in his mind, saw him as he leapt into the rockroach den, one word pulsing in him like a beating heart: Protect. Protect. Protect. And what had Janner done? Complain, complain, complain. 
Janner gritted his teeth. He didn't want that to be his story.

"What happens next?"
"I don't know. I've never been in a war."

His ears heard the stirring sound of Leeli's whistleharp dancing faintly out of the dungeon; a battle song, urging him onward to great deeds.

All quotes from The Wingfeather Saga, by Andrew Peterson. Image by me.

Do you have any favorite quotes from The Wingfeather Saga?