Sara Raasch Quotes

That's what I'm fighting for.
Possibility. ~ Sara Raasch

The question tumbles out of my mouth like a smooth stone in a stream, its edges worn clean by how often I roll it around in my head. ~ Sara Raasch

We'll handle the future one thing at a time. ~ Sara Raasch

Holding on to some part of your past even if it means also holding on to the pain of never again having it. That pain is less horrible than the pain of forgetting. ~ Sara Raasch

My sister used to say you could tell a person's character by what they considered their weaknesses, rather than their strengths. ~ Sara Raasch

Mather smiles at me through it, some of his tension softening before he drops his head in a small bow. "My queen," he says in response. ~ Sara Raasch

The library door is already open when I dash in, but the room is empty. Books line shelves three floors high, and windows just as tall let in rays of dying sunlight. Three balconies wrap above me and a grand piano stands in the center of the bottom level, but there are no people, not even a servant dusting old books in a corner. ~ Sara Raasch

I'm asking you to love me and let me... die. ~ Sara Raasch

You may have trapped me in this... but you aren't the first man to underestimate me, so may I advise you to start treating me with a little more respect, King Noam. ~ Sara Raasch

You've fought for Winter so spectacularly, and I am more proud than I have ever been to call you my son. But don't forget to fight for yourself as well--there is no shame in that ~ Sara Raasch

Knowing is a worldwide pursuit. ~ Sara Raasch

If stubborness were all that was needed to be a good queen, I'd rule the world. ~ Sara Raasch

Just someone who gets bounced around in whatever position needs to be filled, used and used like a candle on a moonless night until I burn away into a puddle of compliance and obedience. ~ Sara Raasch

Mather wrapped his fingers around her wrist and pulled her forward, cupping the back of her head as he slid his face down to hers. He hovered just shy of her lips, panting, chocking because, ice above, this moment - this was everything, the entirety of his life expanding from this one act, revolving around her because she was at the center of everything good that had ever happened to him. ~ Sara Raasch

I want to be someone worthy of my kingdom. I want to be someone worthy of /you/. ~ Sara Raasch

So tired of Noam and Herod and Sir and Angra and all these arrogant, puppet-master men who hold all the strings and refuse to give them up. ~ Sara Raasch

Someday, we will be more than just words in the dark. ~ Sara Raasch

You forgive yourself for what you've done," Edda told her. "You admit mistakes. You learn from them. And you improve. ~ Sara Raasch

The others set up all this because they want me to know that what I did was important - important enough to burn coal.

But it doesn't feel important. Not like it should.

I'm reminded now, watching the coals burn, of why I never feel like I truly belong to Winter. I want to understand all this as deeply as Sir and Alysson and everyone else, a reminder of a time when everything was how it should be, but all this is wasted on me, someone whose only connection to Winter lies in stories told by others. I thought that if I had a hand in saving Winter, I'd feel like I deserve it, the kingdom everyone else remembers. I thought I could fill the void left by my lack of memories with purpose. That's what I've always told myself: if I matter to Winter, Winter will matter to me. And today I mattered to my kingdom.

Then why don't I feel anything more for the fire pit than the slight burn on my finger? ~ Sara Raasch

Flags snap in the breeze above us, banners with a lavender stalk in front of a golden maple leaf on a green background. ~ Sara Raasch

I was right --skirts are inventions meant to make running harder. ~ Sara Raasch

It feels so wrong and yet so wonderful, how much I need to smile at him. Something ~ Sara Raasch

I'm not just me anymore. I'm a whole kingdom, and I can't make mistakes. ~ Sara Raasch

I'm at the center of this, a weird possessive feud between the Winter king and the Cordellan prince. ~ Sara Raasch

Dendera silences me with a hand on my cheek. "You listen to me, Meira Dynam. Yes, you have made mistakes, but I have watched you succumb to this role over the past few months, and that, I believe, is the biggest mistake you have made. The biggest mistake we all made. We've all been afraid, and Meira, you look at me. You saved us. You, this beautiful, wild girl before me - you saved us. So be you again, and whoever that is will be exactly what we need. ~ Sara Raasch

You are not what you've done. Who you are right now, this moment, is who you choose to be. ~ Sara Raasch

Every moment we have is one more moment that can't be taken from us. ~ Sara Raasch

He leaves. Just like that. No final good-bye, no last, lingering glance.
Like we never loved each other at all. ~ Sara Raasch

Books in towering stacks lean against the fireplace and on small end tables, and crowd the bookshelves so tightly I fear the entire structure will burst in an explosion of paper and dust. They're the large books too, great archaic things that look so old, so fragile, that I worry I might disintegrate them just by breathing too hard. ~ Sara Raasch

They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all. ~ Sara Raasch

I close my eyes, back straight, face impassive. When I look, I will see someone capable and composed, a warrior and a leader all in one. ~ Sara Raasch

I just like imagining the possibilities. That's part of freedom too --getting to dream, and knowing it could happen if I want it to. ~ Sara Raasch

Use id not a right, Queen Meira --it is a privilege. ~ Sara Raasch

No matter our dire circumstances, no matter our shared upbringing, no matter the chill his smile sends over my body, he's still him, and I'm still me, and yes, he needs to have a female heir someday, but with a proper lady, a duchess or a princess - not the girl who spars with him. ~ Sara Raasch

I am mistakes and victories and death and life. I am competent and powerful and strong, and whatever this war brings my way --even death-- I will face it like the queen I am. ~ Sara Raasch

Everything really is about choice, even beyond the magic's rules. ~ Sara Raasch

Horrible things don't happen in crowded places; they happen in the hollows of the world, where it's just a victim and an attacker and no one to hear any screams. "Hang ~ Sara Raasch

Mather lifts a white eyebrow. "You don't have to actually yell, if you don't want to. Slightly elevated whispering would be fine. ~ Sara Raasch

The world is full of lovely people, Meira. I bet somewhere there is an Autumnian girl wanting to have skin the color of snow just as you want skin the color of earth. ~ Sara Raasch

No one should be forced to be something they aren't. ~ Sara Raasch

I wanted to be a soldier. Someone who would earn standing in Winter. Someone Sir would look at with pride. Someone Mather would look at and - ~ Sara Raasch

Soon he'll know the blizzard started with me. ~ Sara Raasch

You don't know anything, Meira, and I'm sorry if this...is hard for you to accept, but it will happen. You wanted to matter to Winter? This is how Winter needs you. ~ Sara Raasch

Summer Kingdom farthest west, Autumn next, then Winter, and finally the Spring Kingdom on the Destas Sea. ~ Sara Raasch

A blade is a blade. Blood can be drawn all the same. ~ Sara Raasch

She drew a breath and her lips parted in two words that rebounded through his body.
"Kiss me," she said.
So he did the only thing he could do... ~ Sara Raasch

That, I think, i a truer mark of belonging somewhere - being willing to do anything, everything, that needs to be done, regardless of what I want. ~ Sara Raasch

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment. ~ Sara Raasch

You act as though love is a goal you only achieve after so long spent working at it. And yes, work is involved, but at the end of it all, love is a choice - the kind you have with a spouse, with your people, with yourself. If you acted on those things only when you felt them, you'd be like most people - eternally waiting for a feeling that may or may not come. But if you choose, every day, to love yourself ~ Sara Raasch

I may be alone, the stone may not be magic, but I am not weak. ~ Sara Raasch

This was the difference between a free kingdom and slavery, happiness and misery, life and death. ~ Sara Raasch

Isn't this a little... morbid?"...
"Morbid?" I mange half a smile. "Or cathartic?"
"Most cathartic things are morbid," he amends. "Healing through melancholy."
I roll my eyes. "Leave it to you to find something poetic about slicing off the heads of snowmen. ~ Sara Raasch

No apologies. No matter what happens, I will never, not in a thousand tragic outcomes, ever regret loving you. ~ Sara Raasch

Feeling like you're enough has nothing to do with actually being enough --you choose whether or not you are. ~ Sara Raasch

Angra wanted to break me.
But he only made me unbreakable. ~ Sara Raasch

I take the chakram, my eyes on Mather. "I'm not me without it, am I?"
A smile flips across his face before he shakes his head. "You're perfect the way you are. ~ Sara Raasch

I don't need made-up strength. I'm strong enough on my own - me, Meira, no magic or conduit or anything. ~ Sara Raasch

Just because it wouldn't cure everything doesn't mean it wouldn't make things better than they are. ~ Sara Raasch

All I ever wanted was for you to look at me. ~ Sara Raasch

And I had one of the guards tend to this." Mona lifts my chakram. "It's sharpened." Mona is my favorite. ~ Sara Raasch

I'm tired of fighting myself - I have far too many enemies, far too many obstacles, to spend so much energy wrestling myself into submission. I have far too few friends to alienate those closest to me. I need to start trusting them. And if they break . . . We'll just have to pick up the pieces together. I ~ Sara Raasch

You may have me trapped in this." I tug him off me. "But you aren't the first man to underestimate me, so may I advise you to start treating me with a little more respect… ~ Sara Raasch

It doesn't matter what I would do with magic, because leaders are valued for the wrong things. ~ Sara Raasch

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children. ~ Sara Raasch

He didn't want to fight for her. He wanted her to want him, and she didn't. ~ Sara Raasch

Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing. ~ Sara Raasch

Sometimes placing our belief in something bigger than ourselves helps us get to a point where we can be enough on our own, magic or no magic. ~ Sara Raasch

Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake. ~ Sara Raasch

We need to face what we are. All of what we are, especially the parts that hurt. ~ Sara Raasch

To break one's mask in the presence of someone you reject is an act of permanent separation. To say that you are finished with them in your life, so much so that you do not worry about them seeing your true face. You'll never see them again, so your secrets are nothing in their hands. ~ Sara Raasch

Death has a way of finding those who welcome it. ~ Sara Raasch

Lifetimes have changed in what feels like a heartbeat. ~ Sara Raasch

My bare arms are only a relief for the first few minutes before the unobstructed sun finds my fair skin, and I swear I can hear the rays chuckle with delight at such a tasty meal. ~ Sara Raasch

I have no idea how to go about bridging the distance between us- I just keep telling myself, maybe foolishly, that when he's ready, he'll talk to me again. ~ Sara Raasch

It is amazing what you can hide when no one knows what to look for. ~ Sara Raasch

The Winter we know has always been one of our own creation, a kingdom built on dreams. So you're right, Feige. We're all Children of the Thaw. Our own hybrid of the past and the future. ~ Sara Raasch

Someday we will be more than words in the dark. ~ Sara Raasch

Most cathartic things are morbid. ~ Sara Raasch

That's how we all are, too hard for what we should be. We should be a family, not soldiers. But all that really connects us is stories, and memories, of what should be. ~ Sara Raasch

And Giselle just saw the Cordellan heir give away pieces of Winter.
Theron had no right to do this. ~ Sara Raasch

...As if it's all so easy. If it's so easy, why don't we talk about it more?"

"It hurts too much," Mather says. Just that simple.

That makes me stop. I meet his eyes, a long, careful gaze. "Someday it won't hurt."

The promise we refugees always make one another - We'll be better . . . someday. ~ Sara Raasch

There will always remain differences that can't be glossed over with smooth words. ~ Sara Raasch

He is an anchor too. Something to hold on to when all other things drag me down. ~ Sara Raasch

LIke we had never loved each other at all. ~ Sara Raasch

When someone goes on a long journey, those who stay behind wish them the energy of a wildfire. The power to take things that try to hinder you --- wind, thrashing enemies --- and use them to make you stronger. The power to burn so brightly that all who look will wonder how darkness ever existed in the same world as you." She puts a hand on my shoulder, but her resolve breaks, her eyes glassy. "Scorch this world, Winter queen. ~ Sara Raasch

Anything that lives here has to be just as harsh and determined as the sun, born of a fiery stubbornness that is either extremely brave or extremely stupid. ~ Sara Raasch

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others. ~ Sara Raasch

It's so cold that foreigners have to wrap in layers of fur to walk from building to building, while our natural Winterian blood keeps us warm even in the worst conditions. And snow is everywhere, always, so much that the grass beneath it is white from lack of sun. An entire kingdom wrapped in an orb of eternal winter. ~ Sara Raasch

cup my hands over my face and exhale, inhale, exhale again. Just keep breathing. No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me. Who ~ Sara Raasch

That's how relationships work – when one person is blind, the other must see for them. When one person struggles, the other must remain strong. ~ Sara Raasch

This day has done its best to pick me apart, one emotional event after another. ~ Sara Raasch

That's not fair, throwing out compliments like that. Do you know how dangerous those things can be? ~ Sara Raasch

In a burst of movement I'm up the crates, scaling the wall, and rolling onto the tiles of the roof next to me, a handful of stories in the air. ~ Sara Raasch

I drop down the tower and roll on the roof, breaking into a run, the cold night air blowing me faster, the darkness and gleaming stars taking me somewhere I don't have to feel. ~ Sara Raasch

I know there are things you aren't telling me. Big things…Sir, I will find out. I only hope your reasoning is good enough for me to forgive you. ~ Sara Raasch

What defines us is not our ability to never let them break us-what defines us is not letting them own us. ~ Sara Raasch

slam onto the dusty prairie with a back-popping thud, my blade flying from my hands and vanishing into the thigh-high grass nearby. ~ Sara Raasch

So, what happened to your face?"
Sara grabbed Miki by her T-shirt and jeans before she could dive over the counter at the Asian girl they called Kelly.
Angelina leaned forward as Sara pulled Miki back to her, "You know what they say about curiosity? That it stabbed the annoying biker girl over and over and over again until she spit up blood."
Oh, yeah. That was subtle. ~ Shelly Laurenston

And so here we go bluebird,
Back to the sky on your own.
Oh, let him go bluebird,
Ready to fly,
You and I,
Here we go.
Here we go. ~ Sara Bareilles

To be sure, I'm not perfect wife material: I'm neurotic. I'm compulsive. I speak before I think and can't cook worth a damn. I'm messy and germaphobic all at once, and it's not entirely unheard of for me to get hold of the wrong end of the stick and then hang there like a pitbull. ~ Sara Gruen