Sarah Henning > Quotes

“Though magic can shape life and death, love is the one thing it cannot control”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“My heart is not mine to give because it is already yours.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“Don't grant all the prince's requests, darling girl. Men are always asking for more than they should.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“Tue love is the most powerful force on this earth- we just forget it because those with power here deal in fear rather than love.”
― Sarah Henning, The Princess Will Save You

“She’s the sun and the rest of us are ordinary stars.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“I am a witch. I am and I always will be. The magic is in me and it is enough.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“Everything about love is dangerous.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“Perhaps fantasties are only meant to come true for a moment.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“The only thing magic cannot do is know its bounds.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“My father, the sea king, says that when everything is as you hoped, you are blind to the imperfections.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“when everything is as you hoped, you are blind to the imperfections.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“One cannot hold respect with the familiar. We forget our boundaries. We forget our boundaries with familiar people, too.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“The sea is a fickle witch.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“The magic in my blood prickles at the strangeness, but I have no time to think of things beyond this world.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“It's a perfect night for burning witches.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“My heart has been yours, Evie—always. Since Anna’s death. Since sandcastles and stick princesses . . . I have always loved you. Every day. My heart is not mine to give because it is already yours.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“THE SEA IS A FICKLE WITCH. She is just as likely to bestow a kiss as to steal the breath from your lips. Beautiful and cruel, and every glimmering wrinkle in between. Filling our bellies and our coffers when she is generous. Coolly watching as we don black and add tears to her waters when she is wicked.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“But I am stronger than the pain.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“Purposely giving up one's freedom to love was completely different from being born with it already stolen away.”
― Sarah Henning, The Princess Will Save You

“The heart can bear many things, child, and love is one of them.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“It's never safe for a witch to have no warning.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“Again, her father’s voice clanged in her ears. If you underestimate your opponent you overestimate yourself.”
― Sarah Henning, The Princess Will Save You

“Mermaids are not the monsters you humans think we are.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“I saw you from my deck, you know,” he whispers in my ear. “Before coming aboard. You’ve never looked more beautiful, Evie. And I’ve never begged the gods to steer my ship faster.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“But song and dance cannot close a wound like that. More like it pours salt on it—watching other people sing and dance like nothing had happened, all the while blistered with grief.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“Don’t grant all the prince’s requests, darling girl. Men are always asking for more than they should.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“Perhaps fantasies are only meant to come true for a moment.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“There is yet to be love in this story. Only coincidence and horticulture.”
― Sarah Henning, Sea Witch

“It's hard to see the best in people when those jockeying for power intend to show you their worst.”
― Sarah Henning, The Queen Will Betray You

“Not all princesses get a happy ending. Queens don't either.”
― Sarah Henning, The Queen Will Betray You