Meredith Ann Pierce Quotes

#1. I thought you had forgotten me."
"I have spent my life remembering you.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#2. Greater magics than mine are afoot in this chamber, where blade and cup and dram are met with love such as yours.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#3. A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.

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#4. They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair - no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#5. Aeriel felt her heart grow troubled. "I know," she said. "I know that he is evil, but his beauty unmakes me. Every time he looks at me, I die.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#6. Two years were all we had, love," she whispered, "and we squandered them.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#7. He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#8. I'll not let the pair of you charge boldly into wolves' teeth without me alongside

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#9. Jan could not recall ever seeing a creature more beautiful, though there nagged somewhere at the back of his mind the notion that she ought to have seemed hideous. Why? For she was pure, admirably pure, without a twinge of conscience or shame.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#10. Aeriel gazed at Irrylath: husband to her, but only in name. She dared touch him only when he slept.

Meredith Ann Pierce

#11. Oh, Irrylath,Irrylath, we squaundered our two years together.

Meredith Ann Pierce