Emily > Emily's Quotes

“No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“Someday we will be more than words in the dark.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“So,” I start as we pull to the left in the hall, “you’re the king of Cordell’s son. How’s that?”
Theron chuckles. “Beneficial sometime, horrible others. You’re beautiful – how’s that?”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“Holding on to some part of your past even if it means also holding on to the pain of never again having it. That pain is less horrible than the pain of forgetting.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“Sometimes placing our belief in something bigger than ourselves helps us get to a point where we can be enough on our own, magic or no magic.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“I need a book that says 'Here's how to defeat Spring and restore power to your king, and while you're at it, here's how to prove you matter when no one else thinks you do—”

I stop. I'm staring at the bookshelves and not at Theron, and I don't think I'll ever be able to look at him again without shriveling up from embarrassment. I can still hear what I said hanging around me, my weak, weak admission, and I can't bring myself to breathe, let alone face him.

Theron doesn't give me a choice. He crawls up onto his knees and moves into my line of sight, his forehead wrinkled and his eyes darting over mine like he's trying to figure me out the same way he figured out that passage. After a moment of silence, he grimaces.

“You matter,” is all he says.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“You may have me trapped in this.” I tug him off me. “But you aren’t the first man to underestimate me, so may I advise you to start treating me with a little more respect…”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“The most powerful magic of all is choice.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“When you're a teenager, being different- if it's not by choice - seems like the worst thing imaginable. But is it really?”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“I know there are things you aren’t telling me. Big things…Sir, I will find out. I only hope your reasoning is good enough for me to forgive you.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“I don’t need made-up strength. I’m strong enough on my own—me, Meira, no magic or conduit or anything.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“No one should be forced to be something they aren't.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“I wanted a life of my own, a life where I could feel myself being a part of Winter. And that, to me, came though fighting for it.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“No matter our dire circumstances, no matter our shared upbringing, no matter the chill his smile sends over my body, he’s still him, and I’m still me, and yes, he needs to have a female heir someday, but with a proper lady, a duchess or a princess—not the girl who spars with him.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“I’m Hannah’s daughter. I’m Winter’s conduit. I’m a warrior, a soldier, a lady, a queen, and most of all, as I plunge across the snowfield toward Jannuari’s silent ruin, I’m Meira.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“That, I think, i a truer mark of belonging somewhere - being willing to do anything, everything, that needs to be done, regardless of what I want.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“That’s how relationships work – when one person is blind, the other must see for them. When one person struggles, the other must remain strong.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“Congratulations, everyone," I announce as I open the door to Noam's study. "You've finally broken Meira, the crazy, orphaned soldier-girl. She's snapped, all thanks to the mention of floral arrangements.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“I’m at the center of this, a weird possessive feud between the Winter king and the Cordellan prince.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“One flake falls, twisting down through the empty sky. One frozen speck of snow. Then another, and another, and before I know it the roads will be covered in dozens of distinct flakes. All these little pieces combining to create one giant, volatile snowstorm, something beautiful and dangerous and epic”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“You may be able to look beyond the reality of our situation and imagine some other outcome, but all I ever saw, all I ever see, is a reminder that our lives aren't our own.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“I wanted to be a soldier. Someone who would earn standing in Winter. Someone Sir would look at with pride. Someone Mather would look at and —”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“How quickly the mighty fall.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“Books in towering stacks lean against the fireplace and on small end tables, and crowd the bookshelves so tightly I fear the entire structure will burst in an explosion of paper and dust. They're the large books too, great archaic things that look so old, so fragile, that I worry I might disintegrate them just by breathing too hard.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“So tired of Noam and Herod and Sir and Angra and all these arrogant, puppet-master men who hold all the strings and refuse to give them up.”
― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“Aren't you affected by Simon's magic?"...
"Took you this long to ask me that?"
She clucks her tongue. "You're not the brightest flame in the fire, are you?"
"Don't make me hit you in a library.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire