Sarah Lee Wohn > Quotes

“That is the thing about a rebellious mind: it can never be truly quieted. It always finds a way. Eventually.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars

“You know it will never happen again, don’t you?” I said, leaning closer daringly. “You and me.” My eyes flicked down to his lips.
“Never,” he answered, not daunted by my words in the slightest, “is a very long time for the immortal.”
“We are gods no longer.”
“And yet I find myself so eager to worship at your feet once more.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars

“Many years had passed since I last told him I loved him. For countless ages, I held those words back, afraid to let the undeniable truth escape into the world, keeping it a secret in my heart.
Had I ever stopped loving him? Even during our darkest moments? During war and despair? I had hated him then, hated what he had become. Yet the small flame inside me that burned just for him had never flickered out, a stubborn spark remaining among the ashes. I would always love him. Perhaps I always had.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars

“I am not worth your tears, saeraery,” I said, trying in vain to stem the hot flood wetting my fingers.
“You were worth my joy and my pleasure. How can you not be worth my sorrow and my pain?” She shook her head. “We cannot have one without the other.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars

“For a few glorious minutes, it was only us, everything else fading away. A deadly, heart-pounding dance of clashing steel and quick, shallow breaths, our eyes locked, noting every weakness. No one would ever match me this well, I thought as I ducked beneath a blow that came so close I felt it stir my hair, the crowd crying out in alarm. No one would ever make me feel this alive.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars

“I wanted to give up so many times.” The confession slipped out before I could stop it. “Just move a bit too slowly in a fight. Let some nameless mercenary’s blade end it all. Lyr, it probably would have been no more than I deserved.”
Rada’s face twisted with anguish at my words. Tears streamed down her cheeks. Despite the pain it caused me, I instinctively reached up to catch them.
“But I looked up to the sky and saw your stars,” I murmured. “And I remembered you were still out there, that somewhere your heart was still beating. And if there was a chance, even a small, insignificant chance, that I would see your beautiful face just one more time, it would be worth every moment of pain and despair I had to endure.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars

“My little queen was making a bloody hero out of me. The shitty thing about trying to be a hero was that heroes tended to die. I should know; I had killed my fair share of them.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars

“This is your fault,” I snarled, my instinct to flee, to protect the fragile shell my heart had become, stronger than ever.
“Don’t you think I know that?” He captured my face in his hands, his forehead pressing against mine, those dark eyes pulling me in. “I know that I am fucking this up again, because I always do, and it kills me. Lyr, Baradaz…” His voice dropped to an anguished whisper. “Do you have any idea how much I want you? How much I have always wanted you? What it is doing to me to have you so close to me every single day and not be allowed to touch you, to kiss you, to make love to you? I am burning alive, and you chastise me for begging for more. You wanted me to be truthful to you. So here is the truth. I don’t care if it is madness. I don’t care if you’re a goddess, a queen, or a mortal farmer. I want you to be mine. Mine alone. And that will never change.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars

“You’re in my veins”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars

“What you are to me… There is no word in the tongues of mortals or immortals to describe what is between us.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn

“I wanted him to claim me in some irrevocable, eternal way that would bind us forever. That would make me his and him mine against all reason, against all rules of gods and mortals alike, because I could not breathe without him. I had been buried alive for so long in a tomb of my own making, and now I was finally breaking free.”
― Sarah Lee Wohn, Darkness Births the Stars