Kalyn Josephson > Quotes

“Don't let her silence the storm inside you.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“Books are very underrated weapons.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“I am more than my emotions, more than my depression and fear.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“Strength comes in many forms," she said. "The lion fears only the fox.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“I won´t let my scars define me. Not anymore. From now on, they´re a symbol of what I have left to fight for.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“What game are you playing?"
"No game. Can't a man buy his fiancée a present?"
"A man, yes. A cold-blooded snake, not so much.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“Strength was Caliza taking on the weight of a kingdom without a single complaint. Strength was Kiva's willingness to give up everything she'd ever known to protect someone she loved. Strength was Caylus's curious mind, Auma's unwavering determination, and Ericen's struggle to remain honourable in a kingdom that had forgotten the meaning.
Every day, they fought, and every day, they were strong. And I could do the same.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“Survival took strength, and I had survived. Moving forward took strength, and I had forged a new path.
Forgiveness took strength, and I would not let Razel take that from me.
I would not become her.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Crow Rider

“Maybe there was always a choice”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“I’m fine,” she said again. It was the simplest and yet most necessary lie she ever told.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“she had thought she could make this her life. That she could set fire to her old one and let the smoke wash her clean. At least she was alive. At least she breathed fresh air. But Vera’s proposal was a mirror, reflecting the truth back at her: This was not living. It was barely surviving. But a want was a dangerous thing. It gave people power over you, made you vulnerable.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Dreams are unrealized stories.” Allaster’s voice was soft as the swish of the lake’s waters. Twice as alluring. “How can someone so passionate about stories not have a dream?”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“It felt like wading back into a dream in the early hours of the morning, when your mind was still lost in the magic, but you were awake enough to feel the blanket curled around you.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“The anger ebbed out of me, leaving behind a feeling I didn’t recognize. A beast inside me slowly uncoiled, releasing a tension so deeply ingrained, it had become a part of me.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“So be angry, my lion, and let the world tremble in your wake.”
― Kalyn Josephson, This Dark Descent

“How a man like him had risen through the ranks she didn’t know, but power rarely went to those who deserved it.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Books on rows upon rows of shelves, books in built-in alcoves, books stacked on counters and on desks and on forgotten side tables beside teetering towers of teacups. Then she looked up. Level after level ringed the inside of the room like the ribs of a corset, culminating in a gold-framed stained-glass dome. It shouldn’t have surprised her. From what she had read, the Library had begun as a place of study for magic that grew into something more. But she had never seen so many books in one place. Pages and pages of words; more than anyone could read in a lifetime, and yet some part of Kasira wanted to try.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“So be angry, my lion, and let the world tremble in your wake." - This Dark Descent”
― Kalyn Josephson, This Dark Descent

“Only once her breathing finally calmed did she realize where she was sitting. The chair hadn’t been there previously, nor had the room been large enough to accommodate it. Seeking a task to channel her nervous energy, she measured the distance between the foot of the bed and the opposite wall and found it wider than it had been when she left that morning. The room had changed. Just like the door in Allaster’s office had appeared to let her out and the hallway in the catacombs had moved. Allaster wasn’t the only one with spatial abilities—the Library had its own magic, and it was aware of her. The question was, did it see her as friend, or foe?”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“People wanted to be told that things were not their fault. That their problems had simple solutions.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“And here I was certain you would be moping for at least another hour,” Nyelle remarked with a curve of her lips. “I do not mope,” Allaster grumbled, dropping heavily into his desk chair. Nyelle’s too-keen gaze took in his sagging posture, set jaw, and general air of dishevelment and said, “You’re right. It’s much more of a brood.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Perhaps, in the end, all a person really had was the choices they made.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“I knew what I needed to do, but working up the will to do it felt like trying to fight my way above water in a depthless ocean. It was so hard not to drown.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“It had been more than love and understanding; it’d been magic, a physical connection between two beings that transcended any other.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Storm Crow

“She had learned a thousand and one things and been a hundred different people. But the truth was, she had spent her life running from, not to. From her past. From her mistakes. From herself.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“she admitted to herself that everything she had done, the choices she had made, she hadn’t just made them to survive. She had made them because they were easier.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“So much of her life had been a battle. She had worn herself down to nothing to survive, rewritten herself over and over again until the words bled together, and she could no longer recognize the truth.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“Too much truth was dangerous.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin

“But sometimes being able to understand a playful, conniving trickster of a cat has its downsides, like experiencing all his mood swings. Not to mention the constant flood of curious, “what if I just”–type thoughts. Like, “What if I just knocked this off the table and watched it shatter into a thousand pieces?” or “What if I just pretend that I want a belly rub and then tear Liam’s hand apart?”
― Kalyn Josephson, Witchwood: A Ravenfall Novel

“For those who dreamed of dragons.”
― Kalyn Josephson, The Library of Amorlin