Sarah Lin > Quotes

“The limits of our questions often limit the answers we are prepared to receive.”
― Sarah Lin, Bloodcrete

“Bloodwraith the Corrupter, Bane of Worlds and Father to the Undead, turned and gave them his best heroic smile. "Yes. Yes, I am.”
― Sarah Lin, Changing Faces

“I'm impressed you haven't run off again.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“Property damage is the grandest entrance!”
― Sarah Lin, Bondsfungi

“Honestly, do you even listen? Or did you just go too long without hearing your own voice?”
― Sarah Lin, Bloodcrete

“I'm not a stickler for every single law, but I do have principles. I think you do too, you've just tried to forget them as you've gotten older.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“This is a work of raw beauty..." Nauda stared at it with undisguised awe. "I almost want to buy it just to have in my soulhome, even if it doesn't serve any purpose. Fiyu, isn't this beautiful?" "I am not sure." Fiyu hesitantly shifted her mask up slightly, revealing a glimpse of a silver eye before she winced and retreated back into her hood. "There are many colors, but..."
"You don't need to agree with me, everyone finds different things beautiful." Turning away from the glass, Nauda regarded Fiyu thoughtfully. "Since you use senses other than your eyes, I suppose colors wouldn't be striking to you. And I suppose paintings would just be flat, and statues just shapes. But surely you must have a sense for beauty...”
― Sarah Lin, Soulhome

“You can take your transcendent scientific enlightenment somewhere else.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“he begrudgingly engaged in more politics. Standing in for Blacksilver, getting new identification from the Asplundat Movement, and generally taking on a role as one of the strongest soulcrafters on the continent. What he really wanted to do, though, was make bricks.”
― Sarah Lin, Crimsoncrest

“Wait, do you keep extra shoes to throw at people?" "Those are my throwing shoes!”
― Sarah Lin, Bloodcrete

“You haven't seen how insane some can be. They believe that stable relationships are boring, and they celebrate breaking lifemate bonds for the sake of temporary passions. They consider these things to be their highest arts and deepest natures.”
― Sarah Lin, Wakespire

“Even if they both had the best of intentions, they'd just end up constantly stumbling over the other's expectations.”
― Sarah Lin, Chasmfall

“so he might be wrong. He'd already given warning enough, and anything further would just be arguing for the sake of his ego.”
― Sarah Lin, Rainhorn

“Within her soul, she could face concrete problems, if ones she didn't know how to solve.”
― Sarah Lin, Bondsfungi

“No amount of knowledge or trickery would let him enter a battle of that intensity.”
― Sarah Lin, Chasmfall

“Grow, you insufferable twig." Nauda kicked at the surgestalk roots, which was not an established soulcrafting technique.”
― Sarah Lin, Chasmfall

“She knew that he was knowledgeable, but also that he could be impetuous by reasonable standards.”
― Sarah Lin, Chasmfall

“Nokan”
― Sarah Lin, Street Cultivation 3

“I wish that you had not been forced to grow up under such circumstances, but you rose to the challenge.”
― Sarah Lin, Bondsfungi

“A cynical part of his mind was convinced that the drysupernova would have been purchased just before he arrived, or someone would attack him on the way, or Vistgil himself would descend from the sky. None of those happened: he simply walked into the store, purchased the drysupernova from a polite clerk, and left.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“The grizzleroot was twisted and grayed, which was apparently just what his foundation needed.”
― Sarah Lin, Bondsfungi

“She didn't seem hurt or discouraged so much as she had simply shut down, operating at her lowest capacity.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter

“When he focused his memory was usually good, but minor details were never recorded in the first place.”
― Sarah Lin, Bloodcrete

“Whatever broke my soul... it was designed to torment me. Everything I eat tastes like ash. Beauty is painful. It reacts against almost every positive sensation. I can't believe they'd be so petty, but maybe they wanted to prevent me from cursing.”
― Sarah Lin, Chasmfall

“I have found their hospitality to be somewhat focused on their own comfort, less about the true ideal of generosity and more maintaining a view of the world that they find to be comfortable.”
― Sarah Lin, Soulhome

“It seemed that she had no strategy for someone who was unperturbed by her onslaught of denials”
― Sarah Lin, Bloodcrete

“But passion is like a serpent that can easily turn on you. I worry that, even if she has the best of intentions, she will make painful mistakes.”
― Sarah Lin, Wakespire

“There's a group of four from Earth who are truly powerful, called the Siblings, but I suggest you stay away from them. The House of the Lost might be able to help, but... forget about that. Keep doing what you're doing, gain strength without attracting too much attention. Don't trust the inter-world organizations... Vistgil has had years to twist their beliefs against threats to him.”
― Sarah Lin, Chasmfall

“felt as though the person he had been when he first returned would be disappointed in him, and he hadn't yet decided how he felt about that person. Both of those still lived within him, among a mass of imagined selves he'd never realized were so contradictory”
― Sarah Lin, Chasmfall

“I must apologize for my nephew." She spoke in a quiet voice that still seized their attention. "Please forgive his youthful indiscretions. The House has placed a great deal of pressure on him, and it causes him to lash out.”
― Sarah Lin, Archcrafter