Sarah Kozloff > Quotes

“News of distant places was accepted on par with a thunderstorm seen off in the distance - a far-off disturbance that would blow over before it touched them.”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Queen in Hiding

“They do not realize that knowing history is the only way to make educated guesses about present quandaries”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Queen in Hiding

“In the morning of the second day they found their healer, a middle-aged man named Cerf who had lost his sons in the Rout and his grief-addled wife to suicide.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Queen of Raiders

“Though I have gone by many names, I herewith claim back my true identity,” she called out in a ringing voice, stretching her arms wide. “I am Cerúlia, the daughter of the late, brave Queen Cressa the Enchanter and the heroic Lord Ambrice.
I. Am. Your. Queen.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“We’ll talk about this another time. Hold still. Stop breathing. Your chest keeps moving.”
“Kind of hard not to breathe,” muttered Cerúlia. And you were the one who wanted to know everything.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“You’ve got steel in you, Stahlia; that’s why you recognize it in her.”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Queen in Hiding

“I cannot wed a man who would have me be less than I am. Not Rotherrod, nor any man who needs me to be less so that he can be more.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Could you put my dagger on a stick, to extend my reach?”
“You mean a spear?”
“Ah! Yes, of course. I mean yes, a spear.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Queen of Raiders

“Do you still snore as loudly as you used to?”
“I don’t know,” said Branwise, taking the question too seriously. “When I’m asleep I can’t hear myself.”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Broken Queen

“I bring you nothing: no riches, no magic. But I don’t need that; I don’t want that. All I have to offer is my love, but that love has no limits and imposes none on you.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“I think it’s simple. The lesson is: everyone should have a dog.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Queen of Raiders

“When danger through the realm may reach
The Nargis Nymph allots to each
A Talent for the Times”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Queen in Hiding

“I find that I can’t ever leave my troubles behind me. Pesky things; they tag after me wherever I go.”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Broken Queen

“Most things a person does,” she said to the dark liquid of the goblet, “they do for several complicated reasons. I’m rarely certain that my motives are pure.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“In all the known realms of this earth, only the queens of Weirandale had hair of that color: the cerulean blue of the icy Nargis River—the blue of a blue tanager.”
― Sarah Kozloff

“Families are always complicated, even when you’re raised with your own kin. The fierceness of the love also creates hurts and rivalries, all mixed up.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Then think of the work the rebels had to tear it down! They had no Powers.”
“Just the power of hatred and anger,” said Cerf. “Which we’ve learned is pretty fuckin’ strong.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“He found the job satisfying, as if by creating orderliness in one corner of the library he could restore a sense of order in the world at large.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Do you still snore as loudly as you used to?”
“I don’t know,” said Branwise, taking the question too seriously. “When I’m asleep I cain’t hear myself.”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Broken Queen

“No matter how she beseeched the stars for guidance, their light remained far awar and cold; they provided no answers and no comfort.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Queen of Raiders

“Any gullible fool, looking for solace in a world of hurts, can follow madmen.”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Queen in Hiding

“ Dear Queen, of course you don’t know me, but could you be the quiet, sore-footed woman who rode with the Raiders in Oromondo? I played the fife and you sang? I fell in love with you but was too much of a coward to admit it? By the way, I saw you die from the Magi’s fireball so how did you get to Cascada and on the throne?”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Birdie is the Nargis heir! Birdie is the princella. Oh, Waters! I made the princella clean our chicken coop!”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“Hey, sorry, am I late? I got a note that a man—not just anybody mind you but the hero of three continents—was going to be drawn and quartered here tonight, and I’m eager to watch the show.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“My story? How can that be relevant? There’s not much to tell.”
“Every person has a story. And every story is important.”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Broken Queen

“She predicted that when she became queen she would feel transformed—grander, nobler, wiser—but she still felt disappointingly just like herself.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“More than anything he wanted to read, because only in a book could he escape from his own dark thoughts.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“I lost you once. I could not survive losing you again,” he said. “Don’t go away.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Cerulean Queen

“there is more Magic in the world than most scoffing people credit.”
― Sarah Kozloff, The Queen of Raiders

“But on mundane matters they rubbed one another like whetstones, without polishing off their sharp edges.”
― Sarah Kozloff, A Queen in Hiding