E.P. Clark > Quotes

“You’ll have to be tough, you know, tough and proud and all those other things that don’t seem like virtues except when they are,”
― E.P. Clark, The Breathing Sea I: Burning

“How could you let those…people raise our daughter!” “I raised our daughter, Oleg,” Dasha’s mother said, so tartly her words were like unripe cranberries on Dasha’s tongue.”
― E.P. Clark, The Breathing Sea I: Burning

“She thought about the fact that those who had the most to lose so often fought the most foolish battles.”
― E.P. Clark, The Midnight Land: Part One: The Flight

“Nonsense, Tsarinovna,” he said, but he was smiling as he said it, his gray eyes light and soft as early morning pools of water.”
― E.P. Clark, The Breathing Sea I: Burning

“There is nothing wrong with a noblewoman who knows how to be considerate of others.”
― E.P. Clark, The Breathing Sea I: Burning

“But sometimes when you’re caught up in pleasing others, it can be hard to tell the difference between right and wrong.”
― E.P. Clark, The Breathing Sea I: Burning