59 quotes found
Writer · American · 1987
American writer (born 1987)
“A queen could leave her t”
“Magic was a truly beautiful disease.”
“Everyone's immortal until they're not.”
“No one suffers as beautifully as you do.”
“For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.”
“Dammit Bard, you're going to set the cat on fire.”
“My point, continued Rhy, is for every ten that worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like you and I.”
“Look, everyone talks about the unknown like it's some big scary thing, but it's the familiar that's always bothered me. It's heavy, builds up around you like rocks, until it's walls and a ceiling a...”
“And Athos had. Hed broken Holland one bone, one day, one order at a time. Until all Holland wanted, more than the ability to save his world, more than the strength to bring the magic back, more tha...”
“Next time I walk away, she whispered into his skin, come with me. She let her gaze drift up to his throat, his jaw, his lips. When this is all over, when Osaron is gone and weve saved the world aga...”
“There were a hundred shades between a truth and lie, and she knew them all.”
“This is why I run.Because caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn't let go. Caring hurt more than a knife to the leg, more than a few broken ribs, more than anything that bled or b...”
“I know where you sleep, Bard." She smirked. "Then you know I sleep with knives.”
“Some thought magic came from the mind, others the soul, or the heart, or the will.”
“People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold.”
“My father was a vulture. My mother was a magpie. My oldest brother is a crow. My sister, a sparrow. I have never really been a bird." Lila resisted the urge to say he might have been a peacock. It ...”
“Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don't want to die - dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you r...”
“Death comes for us all, Brother. You cannot hide from it forever. We will die one day, you and I." "And that doesn't frighten you?" Rhy shrugged. "Not nearly as much as the idea of wasting a perfec...”
“Well, when you wonder something," said Eli, "doesn't that mean part of you wants to believe in it? I think we want to prove things, in life, more then we want to disprove them. We want to believe.”
“Please tell me this is easier to take off than it was to put on.Calla raised a brow. You do not think Master Kell knows how?”
“No, he muttered, running a hand through his copper hair. No. No. There are dozens.Kell? she asked, moving to touch his arm.He shook her off. Dozens of ships, Lila! And you had to climb aboard his.I...”
“It is an arrogant man that thinks himself a god.And an arrogant god, thought Tieren, looking to the window, that thinks himself a man.”
“Blood was magic made manifest. There it thrived. And there it poisoned. Kell had seen what happened when power warred with the body, watched it darken in the veins of corrupted men, turning their b...”
“Magic gave so much to Man, and Man so much to Magic, that their edges blurred, and their threads all tangled, and now they can't be pulled apart. They're bound together, you see, life to life. Halv...”
“She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe it wasnt that simple. Maybe it wasnt a matter of what she didnt have, of what she wasnt, but wha...”
