Sapphic Book Quotes

“I am hers and she is mine. We have nothing to fear anymore. To love her is my fate and I will thank the stars every night for their intervention, Iona thinks to herself.”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“I must admit your brooding has a certain allure, though I prefer your smile,” Iona says.”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“Whatever is to thank for our affinity, I will never let you go. Not now,” Ariadne vows.”
― Luna Oblonsky, Her Spell That Binds Me

“Ferocity gathers in Adria’s voice. “I want to see the sun,” she insists.
Her speech is nearly a roar, her wings and horns a jagged, threatening sprawl, but her eyes are soft. Pleading. A girl born to a sunless world. A girl resigned to dying in it.”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“Her skin is moon-luster white, but with undercurrents of blue, like an entire network of split, broken veins. It stretches like old parchment over the amalgam of enlarged muscles that she presumably calls arms or legs; the bulk is such that I can’t tell if she has only arms and no legs, or vice versa. If she wanted to, she could easily pursue an enemy on all fours, or else wield a freezeshot weapon in every one of her clawed hands. Or feet. My brain spins from trying to process. Wings, too, arch powerfully from her shoulder blades, their span broader than my height. They look like aged leather. I have the strangest urge to, if I were closer, run my fingers across the membrane, see if it feels as strong and solid as it looks.
“Better?” the monster says, sardonic.
She draws her arm back, the ball of false flame now illuminating her face. My breath catches in my throat. She looms above me, even as I rise up on my toes, her height terminating at perhaps eight feet. That arch of jawline could’ve been carved from glass, and likewise the curves of her cheeks, the solid line of her brow—her face is more bones than skin, a skeleton animated, a corpse confused at its own continued breath.”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“I’ve seen what I am now if I dare to lose control. I have a civil war to quell, a kingdom to uplift, a ransom to earn.
And by the Beyond, damn it all, I want to know what her face looks like under the mask.”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“Is it truly so terrifying that someone could want you as you are, that you would make every attempt to become someone else entirely?”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“I wish it were just us. I wish there were another universe, a far-off galaxy, even just one planet where we could be together, hidden away from political conflicts and rising wars. I want to fall asleep and wake up in our own little pocket of private time, orbiting each other, spinning on the selfsame axis, our days and nights in sync until we have no more left to give.”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow

“So I’ll be a monster,” I say. “But not your monster... The worst one—so I can be the last one.”
― Laura Genn, Between Sun and Shadow