Robert Beatty > Quotes

“Our character isn’t defined by the battles we win or lose, but by the battles we dare to fight.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“Never go into the deep parts of the forest, for there are many dangers there, both dark and bright, and they will ensnare your soul.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“Did evil creatures think of themselves as evil? Or did they think they were doing what was right? Was evil something that was in your heart or was it how people viewed you?”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“She marveled at how this one room contained the thoughts and voices of thousands of writers, people who had lived in different countries and different times, people who had told stories of the heart and of the mind, people who had studied ancient civilizations, the species of plants, and the flow of rivers.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“It made her think that maybe God intended for them to all fit together, like a puzzle made whole.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“It was true that she was a creature of the night. But she would decide for herself what that meant. She had two choices before her: to slink away and hide, or to dare to fight.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“Serafina marveled at how music seemed to have an almost magical ability to unite the emotions of the people in a room.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“If you meet someone face-to-face and they don’t hiss at you and bite you, does that mean you’re friends?”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“She knew now that there were darker forces in the world than she had ever imagined, and brighter ones, too.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“Her pa had told her once that true courage wasn’t because you didn’t feel fear. True courage was when you were scared of something, but you did it anyway because it needed to be done.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“Every person was a hero in his own mind, fighting for what he thought was right, or just fighting to survive another day, but no one thought they were evil.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“didn’t matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“She realized now that her life wasn’t just about who she was, but about who she would become.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Twisted Staff

“With every injury, we become more of who we are,”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“She thought that it was interesting how just about everyone had a special talent or skill, something they were naturally drawn to and good at, and then they worked years to master it. Nobody knew how to do everything. It wasn’t possible. There wasn’t enough time in the night. But everyone knew something. And everyone was a little different. Some people did one thing. Others did another. It made her think that maybe God intended for them to all fit together, like a puzzle made whole.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“Even we ourselves change, learning and growing, getting pulled down and then rebuilding ourselves again. But for all that, there was a rare and hidden thing, maybe the most important thing, that never changed, and that was the spirit deep inside us, the thing we were when we were a child, and the thing we were when we grow up, the thing we are when we’re at home, and the thing we are when we go out into the world—it’s always with us—that inner spirit stays with us through it all, no matter how our body changes from year to year or how the world changes around us. And through all of this, there is one thing we seek. To be connected to the people around us, to touch and be touched, to have a true family and friends of all kinds with which we share the world and its changes. Like our own spirit within us, our family is the hidden, inner core that deep down never changes, the river that is always flowing.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“Where does a spirit go? Where does the new world begin? Into the boughs of the trees? Into the stone of the earth? Into the flow of the river? Into the ether of the air? It passes from one person to another, each into the other.”
― Robert Beatty, Willa of the Wood

“Stay bold!”
― Robert Beatty

“And the sky was blood. The sky was time. The sky was the past.”
― Robert Beatty, Willa of the Wood

“She couldn’t put it all together, but she smelled a rat.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“All the while, they went about their rotten, ratty business and had no idea she was there.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Black Cloak

“And she knew that her fate wasn't set by how or where she was born, but the decisions she made and the battles she fought. It didn't matter if she had eight toes or ten, amber eyes or blue. What mattered was what she set out to do.”
― Robert Beatty

“My heart is on a journey from where it lives. But I must remember my way home.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“Envision what you want to be, then you’ll find a way to get there,”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Twisted Staff

“Standing there in the forest on her own, she didn’t feel strong. And she didn’t feel happy. But she finally felt as if she could go on.”
― Robert Beatty, Willa of the Wood

“From that very first moment, with her looking up at that stairway that led from the darkness of the basement to the brightness of the world above, all she wanted to do was be part of something. That was all she ever wanted, not just to see, but to be seen. Not just to hear, but to be heard. Not just to feel, but to be felt by other people, to touch them, affect them in some way, to make their lives different, and to be made different by them. And here, on this night, at this moment, on this rooftop, she knew that time had finally come.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart

“There are many mysteries in the world, both dark and
bright.”
― Robert Beatty

“Still gasping for breath from the exertion of the chase, the colonel lifted his rifle and aimed at the closest mountain lion. The crack of the colonel’s rifle rang through the night air, echoing off the surrounding mountains. A piece of bark flew up next to the lion as the cat leapt to a different branch of the tree. Swearing in anger that he had missed the shot, the colonel took several steps closer, levered his rifle, and fired again. Once more, the lion leaped away just in time, slinking from branch to branch as her brother hissed and snarled to keep the frenzied, stupid tree-climbing dogs at bay. Serafina ran toward her brother and sister as fast as she could, her claws out and ready to fight. The colonel fired again, and then again, twigs breaking, bark exploding, the lions hissing and snarling, the sound of the repeated shots echoing across the mist-filled valley. Discouraged by the colonel’s poor accuracy, the other hunters began to position themselves to shoot the mountain lions themselves and get it over with. “My shot!” he screamed again as he moved closer. Serafina ran straight toward them, her powerful chest expanding with raging power. She was almost there. But on the colonel’s next shot, she heard the bullet thwack into her sister’s body. Serafina watched helplessly as her sister fell from the branch of the tree and tumbled through midair, her limbs flailing as she plummeted toward the rocks below.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Seven Stars

“I can't do much, but I can do something, she thought, and if I can do even the smallest thing, then I am a powerful being.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina Boxed Set [4Book Hardcover Boxed Set]

“can feel you watching me,” Rowena said.”
― Robert Beatty, Serafina and the Splintered Heart