Elemental Quotes

“For a moment, I almost felt sorry for her. Then the bitch blasted me with her water magic, and I got over it.”
― Jennifer Estep, Widow's Web

“There is fire and starlight in your veins.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods

“The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution that leads to excessive punctuality or the failed experiment they call the nuclear family. This is the music of elements, untarnished, unrehearsed.”
― Kate Braverman, Small Craft Warnings: Stories

“Blind ambition drives the foolish, while the soul directs the wise.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods

“SOUNDS GROSS," he said. "SALAZAR PREFERS WOOD. TAPESTRIES ARE ALSO ACCEPTABLE.”
― Mirriam Neal, Paper Crowns

“Flaws are beautiful differences that have been wrongly considered.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods

“To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The same applies to the relationship of nature-spirits and the dead. But we may safely say that a large proportion of nature-spirits became fairies, while quite a number of the dead in some areas seem to take on the character of nature-spirits. We cannot expect any fixity of rule in dealing with barbaric thought. We must take it as it comes. It bears the same relationship to "civilized" or folk-lore theory as does the growth of the jungle to a carefully designed and meticulously labelled botanical garden. As Victor Hugo once exclaimed when writing of the barbaric confusion which underlies the creative function in poetry: 'What do you expect? You are among savages!”
― Lewis Spence, British Fairy Origins

“He made her think of ruins, of mysterious places in shadow and darkness, of storms and torrents of rain.”
― Diana Palmer, Carrera's Bride

“We were like two atoms in one molecule, hydrogen and oxygen. Both explosive alone, but the source of everything when we came together.”
― Trevor D. Richardson, Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

“At our most elemental, we are not a chemical reaction, but an energetic charge.”
― Lynne McTaggart, The Field

“Supernaturals is a broad term used to classify beings that include Elementals and numerous other creatures. Like what? The list is endless. Witches, Demons, Spirits, stuff like that. Wow, I commented dryly. It's like a giant Halloween party isn't it?”
― Alessia Dickson, The Crystal Chronicles

“A life for a life, huh, Red?" He grins at me. "You broke me out of a cell once. Now it's my turn.”
― K.V. Wilson, Incarnate

“That was what some humans called it: magic. Manipulation of energy, of elements. They could not understand it and so that is how they described it: the unknown, the inexplicable, the terrifying.”
― K.V. Wilson, Incarnate

“It is true; I am not worthy of harnessing Adhair. The flimsiest of elements cannot be controlled. It has a will of its own. But as with anything on this planet, when nurtured and guided, it can do great things.”
― K.V. Wilson, Guardian

“Love is a not a weakness.”
“For some of us, it is.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“He whispered my name like a prayer and I ignited.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“-The enemy is a tornado. What are you going to do?
-Kill it.”
― M.L. Wang

“Thick, fragrant loam behind the house, where Astraia and I once dug with our bare hands to plant stolen rose cuttings. Thin gray dust on the summer wind, blown into my mouth to grit against my teeth. Father's rock collection: malachite, rhodonite, and the slab of simple limestone inlaid with the skeleton of a curious fanged bird with claws on its wings.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Lady Beatrice's left eye stares boldly at me through the opening of a mask that she holds up to her face. Her light hair is piled half onto the top of her head, the other half arrayed around her shoulders. An unusual ring adorns her right hand, and I zoom in on the portrait to see it more clearly. The ring is a diamond in the shape of an icicle.
I return to the Wikipedia article and click on the next image--a painting of Beatrice on the night of her hanging. She is older in this painting, but her blond hair is styled the same as in the earlier, youthful portrait. The painting depicts screaming townspeople snatching at the skirts of her heavy gown as she attempts to flee. Leaves and flowers are woven through her hair, and a long garland drapes across her dress, giving her the appearance of nature itself.
I look closer. There is no doubt that I resemble her; our blue eyes, high cheekbones, and ivory skin are all a match. We could be sisters from different eras.”
― Alexandra Monir, Suspicion

“Mr. Black held Iris silently as they watched the sun rise high in the sky through the windows. Iris’ hair had mostly dried, and Mr. Black’s suit was all that remained damp.”
― Abby McCormick, Eyes of Black: An Elemental Romance

“I hated him but I ached for him. I hated him in the way that you could only hate someone you had loved.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“...the people who looked up at the stars and believed they foretold their future. Because they needed to feel that they had a future.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“I thought you said it was forbidden to kill here,” I said.
“What I should have said,” Lark began, leaning forward, “was that it was forbidden to get caught.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“So I screamed and screamed and, when I was done, when my face was wet with tears and my voice was hoarse and there was nothing else in me to break, that glass of water, the one that the King had told me to move, it shattered into a million pieces.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“She’s tearing the world apart to find me,” I breathed in awe.
“She is,” Gemini nodded her agreement this time. “But it’s entirely possible Lark would tear it apart to get you back.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“I think there’s a part of me that calls to you. And a part of you that calls back.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“We were together and so we were whole. It was like coming home, like finding the calm amidst the storm, like peace and passion all at once. It was everything. And it was so powerful that it pulled me completely, entirely under and I never wanted to resurface again.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“She felt her body disperse, her structure release into elemental and shifting from fire to air, to water to earth. And then there was no Earth, and it was far beyond the Sun’s keeping of years. And all was a matrix of sound.
Lahana lost hold of time and became as a song lilting upon breath. Then a great longing, a longing to transfigure. The song became a dance, and touch was like a celebration of life. And life opened to a richer song. A longing for the intensification of elemental division. For the beauty of division in symphonic harmony.
Lahana felt pulled with the others in her dance, gathering matter and weight and solidity. She felt time catch hold of her and an emergent cosmos. Time awakening her as she submerged into the fabric of this still young cosmos. Becoming fire shifting to air, to water to earth. Her spirit dancing with the Earthlight that began to reach through the tumult of the elements. Earthlight pouring into the spinning particles of matter and seeking harmony of flesh with spirit – with as much longing as Lahana felt.
Lahana saw time awaken the evolving awareness of the Earth Spirit – embraced within the evolving awareness of the Universe. And both these, Earth and Cosmos, embracing Lahana’s own journey, offering her the garments of their flesh, offering her the sustenance of their bodies.
Then a deep breath ran through her, slow and complete. And she woke . . .”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana

“out on the boats at night, with the stars all clear, I feel as though I’m caught between two hands of infinity. And they’re holding me still but pulling me into them all at the same time. And when everyone is quiet, just waiting, I feel like the sea has its own voice. Not the one everyone talks about – the voices of the dead or the sirens or the monsters – but its own. And it could tell you the answer to everything if you only knew how to ask it.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana

“The Goddess of the Earth. The one who embraces the light of the Sun and the stars: entwining destiny with the patterns of nature. The one who is our body of flesh – and yearning to hold the light of our souls.”
― Tamara Rendell, Lahana