Kristin Bailey > Quotes

“He could sit in the dust and dark of the carriage house and rot for the rest of his life. Clearly that's what he wished to do. It was not my place to get in the way of so profound a destiny.”
― Kristin Bailey, Legacy of the Clockwork Key

“We can't change the world, and there is no other one.”
― Kristin Bailey, The Silver Gate

“sustenance for a thousand years. If I’d felt alone, his words could have called armies to battle by my side. His words filled my heart, and at the same time terrified me because they meant so much.”
― Kristin Bailey, Shadow of the War Machine

“Believing is easy. Wynn's voice in his memory sounded so matter-of-fact, as if her words were the simplest of truths. Perhaps they were.”
― Kristin Bailey, The Silver Gate

“I told you once you were like a bird and I was like a stone. If that is true, then you make this stone look to the sky and know what it is to soar above the heavens.”
― Kristin Bailey, Shadow of the War Machine

“Wynn was born as all in your world are born. She is as she ever was, as she should be.”
― Kristin Bailey, The Silver Gate

“They look at me, and they only see one part of me. One purpose. They will laugh whether I want them to or not. So I make them laugh.”
― Kristin Bailey, The Silver Gate

“The song continued and in the mists of the strange grove, a woman appeared. Her skin was as dark as the rich harvest earth, and white hair floated around her like a soft cloud in a clear winter sky. She wore a dress made of ice woven with the new blossoms of the first warm days of spring. Her eyes blazed as green as the fair golden days of summer, then turned gold like ripe fields of wheat. They glowed in the dim light as she watched him from her place atop a throne carved fro stone and the roots of a living tree.”
― Kristin Bailey, The Silver Gate

“I wished that we could be together, but wishes and dreams make poor bricks for building.”
― Kristin Bailey, Shadow of the War Machine

“Never let anything get in the way of your aim. Be flexible if you must, but never accept defeat.”
― Kristin Bailey, Shadow of the War Machine

“The snow clung to the dark hair curling behind his ears, as if it wished to whisper to him a secret.”
― Kristin Bailey, Shadow of the War Machine