Soph– > Soph–'s Quotes

“The future was only disasters of the past, waiting to happen anew.”
― Erika Johansen , The Queen of the Tearling

“You win your people or you lose your throne.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

“Kelsea didn't recognize the guard, but she knew his voice. After a moment she realized, bemused, that it was Dyer. He'd shaved his red beard.
"Dyer, is that your face under there?"
Dyer flushed bright red. Pen snorted gleefully, and Kibb clapped Dyer on the back. "I told him, Lady...now we can see every time he blushes.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

“The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. —Father Tyler’s Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

“Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

“And the warrior’s way was not to run from failure, but to own up to it and do better.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Memory cut infinitely deeper than swords;”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

“Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

“I'll serve the state better by bettering myself.

One step at a time.

I can make history one step at a time.”
― Rosaria Munda, Fireborne

“And as she turned, it was revealed by her tread that she was fireborne.”
― Rosaria Munda, Fireborne

“Ophélie ne comprenait rien à ce jargon. Sur Anima, les téléphones se débrouillaient sagement entre eux, et puis voilà.”
― Christelle Dabos

“Tu es plus arrangeante qu'une commode, à jamais sortir un mot plus haut que l'autre, à jamais faire de caprices, mais dès qu'on te parle de mari, tu es pire qu'une enclume.”
― Christelle Dabos

“I need my own armor, and soon. A silly queen I'll look when I've been slowly flattened into a man."

Mace grinned. "You wouldn't be the first queen of this kingdom to be mistaken for a king.”
― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling

“Love isn't some scarce resource to battle over. Love can be infinite, as much as your heart can open.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“You're my polar star. I'll go wherever you guide me.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“There will be no redemption. It is not me who is wrong. It's everyone else.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“She had left Harrowhark a note on her vastly underused pillow— WHATS WITH THE SKULLS? and received only a terse— Ambiance.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“Reading the books, I’ve always loved reading. It was easier than talking. Like a child playing games.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“They were sending her to war, so she would go and become something they had every right to fear.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Vhalla wasn’t exactly good at relationships as she preferred to spend more time with books than people.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“I was fine before,” Vhalla protested.
“You were boring. You were worse than boring. You were normal and content. I gave you a chance for greatness.” He looked at her harshly.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Vhalla,” he whispered with a voice as dark as midnight. His nose was almost touching hers.
“Aldrik,” she breathed faintly, as though it was a prayer. No word had ever tasted sweeter on her tongue.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“I'm very proud to be a man. Men have duties, honors, which we can stand behind and take pride in." He raised his eyes to look at them. "Abusing a woman—abusing anyone—violates all of those.”
― Elise Kova, Air Awakens

“Even something very small can cast a large shadow when it is close to the sun.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“She had to survive if for no other reason than to spite the world”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“Let one person say something and give me a reason to burn it all.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“You make me do things far more dangerous than dream. You make me hope, you make me want.”
― Elise Kova, Fire Falling

“She kissed his scars, first the one cutting through his eyebrow, then the one cutting into his cheek, and finally the one cutting across his temple. With each contact, Thorn's eyes widened. His muscles, conversely, tightened.
"Fifty-six." He cleared his throat to make his voice less hoarse. Ophelia had never seen him so intimidated, despite his efforts not to show it.
"Thats the number of my scars."
She closed and then reopened her eyes. She felt it again, even more violently, this urgent call from inside her. "Show them to me.”
― Christelle Dabos, La Mémoire de Babel