Clare Sager > Quotes

“For the women who are, behind their smiles, fucking furious.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“What must it be like to be one of them? A man. A very, very wealthy man. One with status and power. One who could sleep with a dozen women and face no consequence. One who didn’t live in fear of saying or doing the wrong thing, or even the rumour that he had. One whose estate made more money in a year than I’d known in a lifetime.”
― Clare Sager, A Kiss of Iron

“You cry. You feel. This isn’t weak. This is living. This is loving.”
― 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

“I don’t need him or you or anyone, and I refuse to ever again be that powerless.”
― Clare Sager, Against Dark Tides

“Dying for something important is better than surviving for nothing.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“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

“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

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

“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