Sarah K.L. Wilson > Quotes

“For in looking at evil, we are more easily tainted by it. In using power, we are more susceptible to its use.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Fae Captive

“Hope is a torturous thing. It wrenches one from despair just long enough to allow one to take a breath before plunging her back beneath the icy waters. If it wasn't for those breaths, it would be easy to let ice claim the soul. Easy to let surrender swallow the struggle. But hope - cruel mistress that she is - is not satisfied with so neat an ending. Like a house cat with a tiny prisoner, she wants only to torment the soul again, and again, until it dies from a burst heart.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Give Your Heart to the Barrow

“People will underestimate you. That is one of your greatest strengths.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, The Ruby Isles

“If I were being quite honest– which I probably wouldn’t be no matter what the circumstances entailed– he was almost exactly like the fantasy man I’d envisioned falling passionately in love with. The one I was currently trying to mentally murder in my psyche. That one.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Fly with the Arrow

“Comparisons get you nowhere. They only make you ashamed of what you should be grateful for.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Initiate

“The thing about allies is that they never end up being the people you expect. The same is true for enemies. Which makes them hard to distinguish.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Fly with the Arrow

“No man, no matter how pretty or fascinating, was worthy of having me for just a time. I wasn’t a trinket to be enjoyed for an evening and discarded. I was more like a marriage sword, to be worn with honor for all your life.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Fly with the Arrow

“I’m not going to break. Just because I broke before doesn’t mean that I’m fragile.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, The Dark Prince

“It was for him that I searched in every whisper of speech I heard, in every gentle touch, in every small glimpse of a face. It was for just one more glimmer of him, one more of his words passing like fine silk through the ring of my mind, one more sweetly bitter kiss searing my lips like fresh ginger.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Give Your Heart to the Barrow

“It always surprised me that Father– being such a practical man in all other respects– chose my high- spirited, dreamy mother and then this unsuitable horse. It was a weakness of his. And one that made me all the fonder of him.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Fly with the Arrow

“You’re like a bright flame in a dark night. Like a red flower in a field of dead grass.”
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“Stop thinking of me as a flower and start realizing I can be a help to you. The world isn’t going to let me be a delicate, closely guarded thing. I don’t have a choice but to be tougher than I ever wanted to be.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Don’t look like that. Anything worth doing is worth risking for. Now, let’s get to work.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, The Ruby Isles

“I didn’t want to live life as an invalid. I wanted to live it as an adventurer.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, The Dark Prince

“I was losing friends too quickly, whether by having them stolen or by having them give up on me. It was a terrible feeling.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, The Ruby Isles

“Always, time is our worst enemy, stealing away what is most precious to me.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“A day is a precious thing. Who can say how many you have been allotted? It is easy to spend them like water for trinkets, only to realize too late that you’ve used up all your precious days on nothing at all.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Fly with the Arrow

“Maybe it’s time you explained yourself, Dark Prince,” I said, crossing my arms over my chest. “If I’m going to keep your secrets then I think it’s time that you shared them with me.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“Then what of Savette? She’s still too full of magic. What about Rakturan? Your comrades will happily kill him if you don’t stop them. What about Hubric? Did you not swear to him? None of us can do everything, spider. Crushing yourself under responsibilities that aren’t yours is not wise.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dusk Covenant

“A thousand years ago, they waged a war against humans and nearly destroyed us completely. We still didn’t know why they’d called a truce and relented. We only knew that we were bound by some old treaty to allow them into our mortal courts if they asked it and to provide a tithe to them if requested. And apparently, there was this Law of First Greeting no one had told me about and now a Law of Marriage no one had seen fit to mention. Because obviously, you wouldn’t mention it to the one person who likely should have been told. Where would the fun be in that?”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Fly with the Arrow

“I’m determined not to be any less than someone with two working legs."

"If only people didn’t all have to rub that crippled leg in my face as if it were a sin. That’s the part that bothers me the most. I didn’t do anything wrong – something wrong happened to me.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Flight

“Like I said, there are layers. People might agree with the principles but there’s more to it. Maybe they finally find a place with the true believers – a place they never had before with anyone else. Maybe the ideals, while not that important to them, open up paths to success or honor that weren’t open to them before. Maybe they get power they didn’t have. Maybe it just makes them feel good to rub other people’s faces in the dirt or feel like they’re somehow in the right or cleverer than their neighbors, or to rebel – not against anything, just to rebel in general. People are strange. In that buzz of thoughts and wants any one thing could be the controlling impulse that launches them down a path you can’t turn back from.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“Revenge wasn’t what I had in mind. Protection was."

"We can only do what is in our power to achieve."

"In that case, we were going to have to find more power.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Initiate

“We were the Colors of our dragons whether we lived or died. There were no other choices for us.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Flight

“His prospects had gone from soaring to plummeting and there was nothing I could do for him to fix the hole that had torn in who he was.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Initiate

“And then what?

"And then I will show you a trick that dragons have."

A tiny flicker of hope sprang to life in my heart.

"Oh, it should be more than a flicker. Haven’t you heard? We dragons can light anything ablaze.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, The Ruby Isles

“There was so much I didn’t know, and I longed to know it all.

Even the long life of a dragon is not enough to teach everything that is. Be content with what you have while always learning anything you are offered.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“No, I wasn’t going to think about that. I didn’t think about it through the long hours of flight. I didn’t think about it as the sun came up – finally – on the horizon, bathing me in gold and hope. I didn’t think of it when Hubric signaled a weary stop and we landed exhaustedly next to a pond in a rolling field of grass.

Stop thinking about it. Seriously. You’re driving me crazy.

But honestly, how did you stop thinking about something like that? I’d been so close to having something I’d wanted all my life. I’d been so close to getting what I didn’t even believe was possible.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, First Message

“I was weak and vulnerable as a hare in the snare. My only protection, a madman and murderer.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Fly with the Arrow

“Sometimes it’s the ones tempered by fire who are strongest when you really need them.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“It was hard to choose between good and best.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Initiate