S.M. Gaither > Quotes

“You’re much nicer after you’ve had a near-death experience. You should almost die more often.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“You can be afraid, and you’re allowed to feel stuck…you just can’t stay there. You have to keep going until you see what’s on the other side of that fear.”
― S.M. Gaither, A Twist of the Blade

“the closer i get to the end, the more i find myself wanting to go back to the beginning.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“Luck was a lesser-spirit that only the lazy and the foolish prayed to.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“pain eventually ends, one way or another, she used to say. Either it heals, or it scars over and makes you tough enough to not notice it anymore.”
― S.M. Gaither, A Twist of the Blade

“You’re a rather…captivating combination of fearless and faint-hearted.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“Because nothing says friendship like being willing to murder on your behalf, right?”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“In this lifetime and in every other.”
― S.M. Gaither, A Twist of the Blade

“For everyone who’s ever been told they’re ‘too much’— Go ahead and burn as brightly as you want to.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“Books matter. Writing things down means we believe there will be a future generation to read them, whatever wars may come”
― S.M. Gaither, A Crown of the Gods

“Then he said, “There isn’t an easy, direct translation into any other language…because it’s more like an idea. A feeling. We have a story in my old kingdom, that when the one you’re meant to be with enters the world, they steal a part of your soul with their first breath. “And you exist, missing that part, until they find you and breathe it back into you.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“Perhaps this was simply how the world was, no matter what? An endless trading of places between the oppressors and the oppressed?”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“Her lip curled in annoyance. Not only had he shown up here and insisted on barging into her room, but he had also decided to look even better than usual while he did it. The audacity.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“Perhaps this was simply how the world was, no matter what? An endless trading of places between the oppressors and the oppressed? The same song on repeat, with continuously rewritten lyrics…”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“if one of us is going to volunteer to run into a terrifying abyss of darkness and death, then it goes without saying that we all will.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“I’m done for now.” “Good-night, Thorn.” “Good-night, my wheelbarrow warrior.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“Sometimes we hold on to painful things, I think, because letting them go feels like letting go of the person who gave them to us.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“Family is not always blood, and blood is not always family.”
― S.M. Gaither, A Twist of the Blade

“Cas’s reply was quick: “Love is not weakness.” “I think you’re mistaken, little mortal.” “And I think you’re kind of a bitch, middle goddess.”
― S.M. Gaither, A Twist of the Blade

“Don’t get shot with the arrows,” muttered Zev. “Solid advice.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“All he knew for certain was that he had fallen in love with her twice now.”
― S.M. Gaither, A Twist of the Blade

“So he stayed. He didn't ask her to talk. Or eat. Or sleep. Or calm down. They simply existed in thee same space for a while; she was a ship drifting aimlessly about, and he was the lighthouse that she occasionally found herself looking for when she needed to see something real. Something solid.
An anchor”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“There is nothing so very wrong with breaking, so long as you put yourself back together in a better way.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Call of the Void

“I don’t know what you were thinking, but I never needed you to swoop in and save me. I don’t need you to burn the world down for me—if I wanted that done, I could do it myself.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“And now I feel like you and that dress should get out of my sight,” he said, “before we do something we’ll both end up regretting.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“It wasn’t all lies, was it? Everything that happened between us?” He stared at her. Hesitated so long that the waiting caused an actual, physical pain in her chest. Then he finally said: “No, Thorn. It wasn’t.”
― S.M. Gaither, A Twist of the Blade

“I feel…” he replied, slowly, “as though someone should have taught you not to play with fire.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“Do you have to start some sort of argument with everyone you meet?” “Yes,” she snapped, purely for the sake of being argumentative.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Song of the Marked

“So perhaps I’ll just stand among the ashes with you,” he said, “and admire your work.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“There is always an after, she had told Elander. On to the other side, as her friends had grown so fond of saying. But another thought had occurred to her tonight—that even if they never made it to after, they had made it to now, and this was worth celebrating even without the promise of anything else.”
― S.M. Gaither, The Queen of the Dawn