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

“Just because something is legal, doesn’t make it right.”
― 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

“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

“At your feet, all rules kneel. I’m no hero, Katherine, but, please, let me be your villain.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I used to think I had only the terrible options I deserved. I was too broken for anything better. Anything more. But now, when I look ahead, I don’t just see options. I see a life. I don’t know what it will be, but I do know one thing.” Fingers splaying over his chest, trusting that I could lean into him, I lifted my chin and held his glowing gaze. “It will be a life lived truly and a life truly lived.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“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

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

“Yours isn't a sad story; I won't let it be. Not anymore. Yours is a story of revenge and living. Of obliterating those who wronged you. Of making the world see you whether it wants to or not.”
― Clare Sager, Slaying the Shifter Prince

“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

“You cry. You feel. This isn’t weak. This is living. This is loving.”
― Clare Sager, Through Dark Storms

“Non Obsequiorum. We do not submit.”
― Clare Sager, Through Dark Storms

“No. No. I clenched my hands into fists and pulled on that word. No. I seized my anger and breathed life into its embers. Because I was not the woman they and my father had squashed into a mould. I was not quiet and meek and mild. I was fucking furious.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

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

“Let them see your scars. Let them see your strength.”
― Clare Sager, Stolen Threadwitch Bride

“I’ve done awful things, Kat. Some I’m not proud of. Don’t think that just because I’ve helped you, I’m some noble hero. I’m the villain in many other people’s stories.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“I wanted to lie in the sun sated with cake and sex.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“Sex wasn’t something for shame. It wasn’t something horrible where one party used the other. It wasn’t something to be done for duty. It was beautiful. It was pleasure beyond reckoning—beyond containment in a single body. It was something shared.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“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

“I couldn’t bring myself to look at him. If I did, I might stab him in the eye with my embroidery scissors. And that would be a terrible waste of embroidery scissors. Those things were expensive.”
― Clare Sager, Stolen Threadwitch Bride

“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