Elizabeth A. Lynn > Quotes

“You could never demand intimacy -- you could only volunteer it.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, A Different Light

“I would know you from the heart of the sun. I would know you even if I were mad. I will know you always, whatever form I wear. I swear it.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, Dragon's Winter

“I will take you home, his lord had said. Home. He held to that word, as a man holds to a rope in a raging sea.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, Dragon's Winter

“Men did not touch each other as Karadur touched this man unless they were lovers. But there was more between them, a connection, a feeling that was present even when they sat apart.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, Dragon's Treasure

“There were three ways to get around inside Port City. Ground level was the movalongs. Second level was the Bridge—a raised platform on which you could stroll, watching at leisure the swifter bob of heads below you. Up above the Bridge were the bubbles, strung on their cables like jewels on a chain, sliding swiftly and unceasingly around the city. They were beautiful to look at, especially at night, when they were lit from within, and their colorful neo-lucite walls glowed green, rose, red, orange, and blue, a mobile circlet of gemstones. Leiko adored them and took them every chance she got. They made Jimson nervous as they careened through the air, but he rode them once in a while just to look down and see the magical city, blue, rose, red.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, A Different Light

“Oh—” Sefer scratched his chin. “To study. To learn. To explore! We know so little about this world. Think of what the gifts could show us! We might far-travel to the ends of the earth, to lands beyond Arun, beyond Anhard, beyond the ocean. There must be people there. We could speak with them. We might see into the future, and even into the past. We might learn to heal, not just fevers and wounds, but age, decay, and even death. Do the stars have a pattern, as the superstitious claim? We can learn it.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Chronicles of Tornor Trilogy: Watchtower, The Dancers of Arun, and The Northern Girl

“The old history intrigued and enchanted her.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“The more we know, the greater grows our understanding of the chea, and the closer we come to the heart of harmony, to the order that underlies and infuses and springs like breath through all things.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“There was no way for Ryke to turn traitor, with Errel prancing like a puppet to Col Istor’s least whim.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower

“This is home, Kerris thought. It did not seem as preposterous as it had the day before.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“It is ill luck to doubt the word of a messenger, and those two are more dangerous than most.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower

“We were more intent upon killing than upon building and learning.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“The past is calling you, surely, and it is a seductive call. Do not be trapped by it.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“If the black clan had its way, no one would do anything without writing it down.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“We cityfolk are taught from childhood to reverence the witchfolk, to believe that, because of their powers, they are closer to knowledge that the rest of us. What we are taught to forget is that they are simply men and women, like you and me. Whatever their powers, they are only human, and I don’t believe that they know any more than you or I, or anyone, about the law, or truth, or the chea. More, Paxe, I am no longer sure that the chea asks that we do one thing within the city Gates, and another outside them. Outside the city, folk may wear and use edged weapons, inside not, and the witchfol claim the chea wills it so. Yet the sign of the chea’s presence is prosperity and concord among peoples and look-outside the city walls there is no discord. It’s been a hundred years since there was a war! If the Ban is so necessary to keeping Arun peacful, has the country prospered?”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“The knees of her pants grew hot with the flames; she barely felt it. Tornor. Where and what was Tornor? A trickle of sweat tickled the skin under her breasts, as the name rang like a note of music in her head.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“The expression on Errel’s face disturbed him. He looked seduced.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower

“Leaving Kel was like leaving the sun.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Closing her eyes, she saw the map that Kadra had made her, with the line of her journey laid out. At the end was Tornor. She could no more not go there than she could cease to dream, or, to speak, or to love.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“It’s taken me a long time to come north, but I always meant to,” he said. “I’ve come to take you south with me, if you’ll go.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“It would be terrible to use the gifts of the chea to make war.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“You should have been at Elath, among your own kind, five years ago.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“She was beautiful. Her dark hair fell around her gown like a black wave through a field of daisies. Sorren tried to speak calmly.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“She is afraid,” she said. “I believe she is afraid of me.” She stretched out one hand. “Child, you needn’t fear me. I am vowed to the chea, to harmony.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“Rage flowed through her, swifter than the blood beneath her skin, and she felt herself, darkening with anger.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“You asked me what I wanted,” said Col Istor. “I want you. You know the Keep, the villagers, the weather, the needs of the country. I want your service. In exchange for your loyalty, your princeling there stays alive and fed.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower

“The folk of the Green Clan kept to themselves, but Sorren had met some of them on the hill. It was they who carried the Council’s edicts or suggestions to the Councils of other cities, to the Asech tribes, and to Anhard.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“Edged weapons, so the witches said, shattered the harmony that drew people together in peace and made the land of Arun fruitful, it was forbidden to own them or use them in the city. The prohibition was not total, but the terms of the exceptions were clear and known to every child in the city streets-which only made the swords more fascinating, Paxe knew.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“It was an honored task and an honored title, that of witch. But Sorren did not want it. The witches frightened her. Stubbornly silent, Sorren kept her gift to herself. The only person she trusted enough to tell about it was Paxe.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“Sefer knows that Kel loves other people. He doesn’t care. He could he? It makes no difference what happens between them.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun