Quotes

Memorable lines, by episode. The writers reuse them as callbacks.

Hold the light. Hold the road. Hold on to each other.
- Oriel, C1E1 - Lantern Thirty-Seven

Cheat? Me? I once beat a river captain using nothing but my honest face.
- Tamsin, C1E1 - Lantern Thirty-Seven

The open hand holds more than the fist. Take it. My knees have earned the rest.
- Father Tobin, C1E1 - Lantern Thirty-Seven

Four goblins. One road. One of me. Fine. Get behind the shield.
- Brannoc, C1E1 - Lantern Thirty-Seven

I am... technically fine. I would like it recorded that I was stabbed. Twice.
- Ilsevel, C1E1 - Lantern Thirty-Seven

Then we held it together.
- Oriel, C1E1 - Lantern Thirty-Seven

Four shutters broken. Two arrows in the door. One goblin. Still one goblin.
- Brannoc, C1E2 - The Goblin Who Talked

Brannoc. Stand behind me, please. Just stand. You're very good at standing.
- Oriel, C1E2 - The Goblin Who Talked

Supper.
- Rusk, C1E2 - The Goblin Who Talked

He can be tied up and fed. Those aren't opposites.
- Oriel, C1E2 - The Goblin Who Talked

I do not believe a word of that. Technically, you have been in trouble since the moment I met you.
- Ilsevel, C1E2 - The Goblin Who Talked

Ten words. Don't get used to it.
- Brannoc, C1E2 - The Goblin Who Talked

It's a story. Better than an answer. Lasts longer.
- Tamsin, C1E3 - The Empty Housing

I will write down that you are practised.
- Ilsevel, C1E3 - The Empty Housing

It was not broken. It was taken. Lifted out of its cradle like an egg from a nest.
- Ilsevel, C1E3 - The Empty Housing

It's cold. That's all. It's only cold.
- Oriel, C1E3 - The Empty Housing

Ground's been walked to soup. Could be four. Could be forty.
- Brannoc, C1E3 - The Empty Housing

Only when I'm nervous. Keep walking.
- Oriel, C1E3 - The Empty Housing

Somebody has to.
- Brannoc, C1E4 - Wolves at the Birches

Hello. I have read about familiars for thirty years. You are smaller than the diagrams.
- Ilsevel, C1E4 - Wolves at the Birches

Pell says you smell of cards and onions. I am paraphrasing. He was ruder.
- Ilsevel, C1E4 - Wolves at the Birches

You went down and didn't get up. Humour me.
- Oriel, C1E4 - Wolves at the Birches

Pell says he will go first. He says he is the only one of us with any sense.
- Ilsevel, C1E4 - Wolves at the Birches

Alone's the only way anyone believes a story. You lot creep up to the bushes and look large.
- Tamsin, C1E5 - The Scout Camp

Evening, lads! Boss sent me. Change of plan: the stones go tonight. And where's my supper?
- Tamsin, C1E5 - The Scout Camp

Why boss send a dwarf?
- Goblin-2, C1E5 - The Scout Camp

A core is always warm. This is like holding a stone from the bottom of a well.
- Ilsevel, C1E5 - The Scout Camp

Then we sleep there. I'll take first watch.
- Brannoc, C1E5 - The Scout Camp

The road moved. The stone stayed.
- Ilsevel, C1E6 - First Watch

It is a long way of saying I have never been allowed to try.
- Ilsevel, C1E6 - First Watch

...Counting.
- Brannoc, C1E6 - First Watch

I sleep with a candle. A priestess of the Lantern-Bearer, twenty-five years old, and I sleep with a candle.
- Oriel, C1E6 - First Watch

I see in the dark. You keep it.
- Brannoc, C1E6 - First Watch

Pell says he was excellent at it. Pell says nothing happened at all, which is the point of a watch.
- Ilsevel, C1E6 - First Watch

'The open hand holds more than the fist.' Forty years I've preached it. I still don't know if it's about lanterns or about people.
- Father Tobin, C1E7 - The Saint of the Open Hand

I like his better.
- Tamsin, C1E7 - The Saint of the Open Hand

I named you Oriel. Golden. Because that lantern was the only light in the square, and you were in it.
- Father Tobin, C1E7 - The Saint of the Open Hand

Then we're the help.
- Oriel, C1E7 - The Saint of the Open Hand

Then go with my blessing. And come back, all of you. That part isn't in the scripture, but it should be.
- Father Tobin, C1E7 - The Saint of the Open Hand

Most things.
- Brannoc, C1E8 - Wending Mill

No time to creep. Run.
- Brannoc, C1E8 - Wending Mill

Still mostly on the inside, Sunshine. Mostly.
- Tamsin, C1E8 - Wending Mill

Magic Missile. It never misses. That is rather the point of it.
- Ilsevel, C1E8 - Wending Mill

Get those doors open. I'll watch the smoke.
- Brannoc, C1E8 - Wending Mill

He says: 'The boss pays for stones. He pays more for the ones who stop us.'
- Ilsevel, C1E9 - Smoke Over the Millpond

Then it's steel. Get behind me.
- Brannoc, C1E9 - Smoke Over the Millpond

Not you. Not you as well.
- Brannoc, C1E9 - Smoke Over the Millpond

Big Man. Sit down. You're bleeding on the bread.
- Tamsin, C1E9 - Smoke Over the Millpond

Then tomorrow we tell Rook. All of it.
- Brannoc, C1E9 - Smoke Over the Millpond

Report. Short version.
- Captain Edda Rook, C1E10 - Fort Harrow

Ten crowns a week, each of you. Ride the road. Find out who's buying those cores. Short version: I need you.
- Captain Edda Rook, C1E10 - Fort Harrow

Ten is a lovely number. I've always said so.
- Tamsin, C1E10 - Fort Harrow

It is drinking the light. And it is cold. Cold the way the dead cores were cold.
- Ilsevel, C1E10 - Fort Harrow

I have never read of anything like it. Not in any book. Not once.
- Ilsevel, C1E10 - Fort Harrow