Clare Sager > Quotes

“For the women who are, behind their smiles, fucking furious.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“How does making you small keep you safe? Laughing quietly, folding your hands, letting the men talk. Are they matters of your safety or just keeping you manageable?”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“At your feet, all rules kneel. I’m no hero, Katherine, but, please, let me be your villain.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“For the women turning their rage into power. Let's burn it all down.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Just because something is legal, doesn’t make it right.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“You think peace costs as much as war?” “It isn’t free. It costs whatever is sacrificed to maintain it.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Survival alone is not enough. There comes a point when you need to live.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Who made you deny yourself so much? Who hurt you so badly your only protection was to persuade yourself you wanted nothing at all?”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I want you, body, heart, and soul. I want to worship you as you deserve to be worshipped. Adore you as you deserve to be adored. Love you as you deserve to be loved.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Survival is a slow death. No one can keep treading water forever—it’s just a slow way to drown. If their situation doesn’t change—if no lifeline comes or they don’t find a boat or solid ground—they will sink.” His eyebrows knitted together even tighter as he searched my gaze. “I don’t want to see you sink, little ember.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“She’s far above you, Langdon.” There was a flash of sharp canine as Bastian spoke. “Keep her name out of your mouth.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“He looked at me like I mattered. Like I was important—as vital as air, as sacred as a bargain. Like there was nothing in me that ever warranted shame.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“That foolish part was the silly girl who’d loved stories of romance and adventure, staying up late to read them to her sister. She was the girl who’d hoped to one day marry for love. She’d been innocent of duty, of reality.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“Your anger is a beautiful thing, Katherine. You are allowed to have it, and you’re allowed to show it.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Never tell me that I can’t.”
― Clare Sager, Under Black Skies

“I’d found. When you have nothing left, even a scrap of something is important.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Hmm. Did it serve you to keep quiet?” I had no answer. “Or did your silence just serve others and their comfort?”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“The man who’d given so much of himself for others—his queen, his court, me. The man who carried someone else’s traumatic memories and all the guilt that went with them. The man who knelt for no one, but had for me.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“That's what family does. Whether we're bound by blood or by choice, we remain.”
― Clare Sager, Slaying the Shifter Prince

“The fact there was a vast, vast gulf between what we were supposed to be and what we really were.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“My father told me that who you really are is what you do when no one else is looking.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“When I ducked to give him a kiss, he grabbed my arm and murmured in my ear, “Be safe, Kat.” “That’s grown increasingly hard since meeting you, but I’ll try.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Take what you want for once, not only what you need.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“non obsequiorum—we do not submit”
― Clare Sager, Against Dark Tides

“Because if that was all real—if what he’d told me was true… Well, I’d had something precious and beautiful, hadn’t I? And I’d lost it.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“I told you, Katherine. It’s a tragedy for a beautiful flame to be starved of fuel and allowed to gutter so low, it doesn’t even know it’s a flame anymore.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“You’re making it sound like I’ve done something wrong by being with you, but it feels like this is the first right thing I’ve done in my life.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“When I emerged from what I now realised was a shirt, my eyes burned and my lip trembled. Bastian’s brow crumpled. “Oh, love.” He pulled me against him. “But I wet myself. I’m dir—” “I don’t care.” He squeezed me like he really didn’t care that my legs were still covered in my own piss.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I bit back a laugh and lengthened my stride, suddenly keen to get back to our rooms. I really had nothing to worry about. Oh, how the world must’ve laughed at that thought,”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Everything is dangerous. The things that feel safe are the worst of all. But this whole business of living is dangerous. Sometimes you just need to dive in anyway.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron