Sapphique Quotes

“Once Incarceron became a dragon, and a Prisoner crawled into his lair. They made a wager. They would ask each other riddles, and the one who could not answer would lose. It it was the man, he would give his life. The Prison offered a secret way of Escape. But even as the man agreed, he felt its hidden laughter.
They played for a year and a day. The lights stayed dark. The dead were not removed. Food was not provided. The Prison ignored the cries of its inmates.
Sapphique was the man. He had one riddle left. He said, "What is the Key that unlocks the heart?"
For a day Incarceron thought. For two days. For three. Then it said, "If I ever knew the answer, I have forgotten it."
--Sapphique in the Tunnels of Madness”
― Catherine Fisher, Sapphique

“The Art Magicke has rules. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves. How to disappear and reappear.
"How to saw people in half?"
"That too."
"Nice.”
― Catherine Fisher, Sapphique

“All my life I've plotted and planned, been obsessed with those things.

And now you've achieved them. You are not satisfied. He nodded.
Life is a series of stairs of which we climb, Claudia... your horizons have moved.”
― Catherine Fisher

“Sabran se recula pour l'examiner. Ead eut un aperçu de ses expressions à la lueur des bougies — le front lisse, les yeux sombres et déterminés — avant qu'elles s'unissent à nouveau, et leur baiser fut cette fois chaud, novice, fondateur, la naissance d'une étoile sur leurs lèvres. Elles étaient des rayons de miel secrets, fragiles et complexes. Ead frissonna quand la nuit accueillie sa peau.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Cela attiserait la flamme du scandale, et l'incendie grossirait jusqu'à la consumer toutes les deux.
Mais Ead considérait le feu comme son ami, et elle plongeait dans la fournaise pour Sabran Berethnet, pour une nuit avec elle. Qu'ils viennent avec leurs épées et leurs torches.
Qu'ils viennent.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree