Sarah Black > Quotes

“I don't want to hide. I want to slow dance with you again. I want to dance with you forever.”
― Sarah Black, Border Roads

“Stay with me. I think you might be the love of my life.”
― Sarah Black, Idaho Pride

“What is he, twelve?"

"Fourteen."

"Well, no wonder, then. Hormones are raging! All you want to do when you're fourteen is snatch up a broadsword and hack something to pieces, then find a big rock and fuck it to death.”
― Sarah Black, The General and the Horse-Lord

“Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn't see us.”
― Sarah Black

“I'm going to love him until the stars fall out of the sky.”
― Sarah Black, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari

“This is what I'm going to remember on the day I die," he said. "Right before I close my eyes, I'm going to remember this, the way your hand feels, the heat of your leg against mine, the smell of the skin on the back of your neck, like burnt sugar.”
― Sarah Black, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari

“You're the only kick-ass general I know who needs three gay boys to dress him, John."

"But I only need one gay boy to undress me.”
― Sarah Black, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-Jazari

“I am the king. You’re the knight sitting at my round table. That’s the nature of our relationship when it comes to war or other conflict resolution in this family.”
― Sarah Black, The General and the Horse-Lord

“There comes a time, you have to stop running, stop pretending, and just be the man you were meant to be. It doesn't matter what it costs, because to not be that man, that’ll cost you your soul. What am I going to do? I’m going to love him until the stars fall out of the sky.”
― Sarah Black, The General and the Elephant Clock of Al-jazari

“He was wearing a T-shirt that said “Judge a moth by the beauty of its candle.” He was my candle, but I was not his. I decided I was okay with that.”
― Sarah Black, The Legend of the Apache Kid