Sorren Quotes

“The old history intrigued and enchanted her.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“It was an honored task and an honored title, that of witch. But Sorren did not want it. The witches frightened her. Stubbornly silent, Sorren kept her gift to herself. The only person she trusted enough to tell about it was Paxe.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“As she drew on her pants, the mountain vision came upon her. She was a bird (though without form or weight) soaring over the steppe. She smelled the northern air, thin and clean and dry as a bone, tasted it, felt her lungs labor for it. The sun was hot. The hills rose below her, brown and green and white. The white was sheep. They grazed placidly on the grass, as girls with sticks watched them. A river, blue as a ribbon, threaded a path toward a valley. Behind the river, the mountains stood. Within the cleft of the mountains, a tower lifted a gray spike to the sky.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“The knees of her pants grew hot with the flames; she barely felt it. Tornor. Where and what was Tornor? A trickle of sweat tickled the skin under her breasts, as the name rang like a note of music in her head.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“In the fields picking grapes, she had dreamed of being something else, not a grapepicker, something wonderful, a princess and she had gone with Arré happily without a backward look, because secretly she believed that Arré would make her a princess. It seemed very silly now. But all children had such dreams.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“Even if she was not a princess, she wanted it to be so. She wondered what Paxe would say when told.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“In the dim room, Sorren’s hair crackled around her head like sparks from a bonfire.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“She turned from the tavern and went on, knowing as she did it was not thrust that had drawn her toward the tavern door, but the thought that Kadra the ghya might be there.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“She wanted to say something-do something-she didn’t know what. Her feelings were all askew.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“She remembered the Card, the woman drawing a bow silhouetted against the crescent moon. The Archer had gold hair, like her hair.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“Closing her eyes, she saw the map that Kadra had made her, with the line of her journey laid out. At the end was Tornor. She could no more not go there than she could cease to dream, or, to speak, or to love.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl

“There were ghosts here, she thought. No wonder her own ghosts had not followed her here. She trailed her hand along the ancient wall.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Northern Girl