Casey L. Bond > Quotes

“If you skip to the ending, you miss all the best parts, the parts that make all the heartache and strife, all the pain and sorrow worth it. You have to traverse the darkest valleys to reach the highest peaks, Elira.”
― Casey L. Bond, Where Oceans Burn

“Besides, every girl, witch or not, dreamed of becoming a princess. Not with crowns and gowns, but princess of the heart of someone she loved, and who loved her in return.”
― Casey L. Bond, When Wishes Bleed

“If I knew anything, it was that people were like icebergs. You only saw what they allowed you to see, but the dark places of a person’s soul were concealed beneath the surface. Inevitably, people tended to consist of more darkness than light.”
― Casey L. Bond, High Stakes

“It should be lived and enjoyed. It should be celebrated. Life is a gift, Elira. Not a contest.”
― Casey L. Bond, Where Oceans Burn

“For only in darkness can light find its purpose. And only in light can darkness find rest.”
― Casey L. Bond, The Omen of Stones

“Because my heart was already yours. I wanted you to know. To hear it from me that I love you. I have loved you since the Dusk Lands and will love you in the hereafter”
― Casey L. Bond, House of Wolves

“pressed them hard enough into the straight and narrow line. It was how prejudice and ignorance were perpetuated through the generations.”
― Casey L. Bond, When Wishes Bleed

“life should not have to be survived,”
― Casey L. Bond, Where Oceans Burn

“Kyan was pouring hot water that had been heating over the fire into a mug. The steam stretched long into the air above before disappearing.”
― Casey L. Bond, Reap

“You have to traverse the darkest valleys to reach the highest peaks,”
― Casey L. Bond, Where Oceans Burn

“I’m terrified ashes is all I’ll become, when I feel destined to be the flame.”
― Casey L. Bond, House of Eclipses

“Placing a hand over his chest, he introduced himself. “I am Prince Phillip of Grithim.” I sucked in a breath before he voiced the question I knew he’d come to obtain the answer to. “Where the hell is my brother?” I liked him better than William already.”
― Casey L. Bond, Savage Beauty

“You know the moment when fate plays a cruel joke on you, rips the rug out from beneath your feet and laughs at you after you’ve fallen flat on your hind end? This was like that moment.”
― Casey L. Bond, Sin: The Entire Serial Series

“You certainly can and will always be welcome at my side.”
― Casey L. Bond, House of Wolves

“A person could rise above their past, but they couldn’t escape it. Some got trapped in the mire of what happened to them and could neither live in the present nor envision a future.”
― Casey L. Bond, High Noon

“There is nothing about you that I would ever change. You are exactly who you were born to be, and I am proud of all you will one day do and the woman you will become.”
― Casey L. Bond, Valor

“She was determined despite her fear, relentless despite the danger.”
― Casey L. Bond, Valor

“Your fates are one, he answered. One prince. One witch. One fate.”
― Casey L. Bond, When Wishes Bleed

“One king. One queen. One fate.”
― Casey L. Bond, When Wishes Bleed

“Unfortunately, I know that it’s entirely possible to hate what you love. It’s a tormenting feeling, like having two minds, or like your body is constantly being pulled apart by separate ropes.”
― Casey L. Bond, High Seas

“He was a beautiful symphony of perfect destruction; a dark melody I knew by heart.”
― Casey L. Bond, High Stakes

“Children would ignore their own experiences and feelings if adults pressed them hard enough into the straight and narrow line. It was how prejudice and ignorance were perpetuated through the generations.”
― Casey L. Bond, When Wishes Bleed

“A shadow is more than light meeting an object and showing its form. It is the stamp of a thousand moments lived; it’s a place where our memories are kept safe.”
― Casey L. Bond, The Last Lost Girl

“It was funny how life worked. Even when they were surrounded by darkness and imminent death, people could always find something to laugh about.”
― Casey L. Bond, High Stakes

“Perfection was boring. Flaws were the ink with which great stories were penned.”
― Casey L. Bond, Valor

“Trust is a piece of yourself you give away. You should be careful who you give it to.”
― Casey L. Bond, High Stakes

“When I leave, will you tell him that I loved him with every sharp shard of my soul? And that I know I never deserved him, but had to try anyway.”
― Casey L. Bond, Where Skies Fall

“We sized one another up the way siblings did when there was much to say, but no point in saying it. When there had been too much time and distance and pain between them for far too long. When words were more likely to be used as weapons than a soothing balm. When the only thing left between them was the bond of loyalty that siblings uniquely shared, forged in the innocence of childhood before maturity hacked away at their limited perspectives to reveal the cruel world they would face as adults.”
― Casey L. Bond, Valor

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” – C.S. Lewis”
― Casey L. Bond, Unlocked

“If they thought I wouldn’t defend myself, they were wrong. And not only defend, but conquer. I was a Warrior.”
― Casey L. Bond, Where Oceans Burn