Sara Raasch Quotes

#1. He is an anchor too. Something to hold on to when all other things drag me down.

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#2. No one should be forced to be something they aren't.

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#3. Actions are always far easier than words.

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

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#5. That's why literature is so fascinating. It's always up for interpretation, and could be a hundred different things to a hundred different people. It's never the same thing twice.

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#6. Someday we will be more than words in the dark.

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

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#8. I want to look at someone and know that every need and wish and desire i have matches his, not that my every need and wish and desire clashes with his. Unification should be the overall theme of a relationship.

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#9. You're impossible," I growl, and rip open the book. Theron laughs and scoots a little closer to me. "Impossible, endearing. Synonyms, really.

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#10. Every moment we have is one more moment that can't be taken from us.

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#11. There will always be a they in your new life, Meira. They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all." "Are

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#12. You may be able to look beyond the reality of our situation and imagine some other outcome, but all I ever saw, all I ever see, is a reminder that our lives aren't our own.

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#13. He didn't want to fight for her. He wanted her to want him, and she didn't.

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#14. 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.

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#15. This was the difference between a free kingdom and slavery, happiness and misery, life and death.

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#16. Everything really is about choice, even beyond the magic's rules.

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#17. All I ever wanted was for you to look at me.

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

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#19. What defines us is not our ability to never let them break us-what defines us is not letting them own us.

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#20. 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 -

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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

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#23. Soon he'll know the blizzard started with me.

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

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#25. I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

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#26. 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.

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#27. Congratulations, everyone," I announce as I open the door to Noam's study. "You've finally broken Meira, the crazy, orphaned soldier-girl. She's snapped, all thanks to the mention of floral arrangements.

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#28. I'm not just me anymore. I'm a whole kingdom, and I can't make mistakes.

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#29. 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

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#30. Like he sees me, truly sees me, no matter how I am... Like he sees all the sacrifices he's made and doesn't regret a single one.

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#31. 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.

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#32. Fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing.

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#33. Someday we'll be more then words in the dark

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#34. Death has a way of finding those who welcome it.

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#35. The most powerful magic of all is choice.

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#36. Magic is all about choice. Choosing to use it, choosing to surrender it, choosing to take it from the chasm --choosing to let it break in defense of a kingdom.

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#37. He couldn't stand being around her when she had...Theron.
He wasn't king anymore. He wasn't an orphan anymore. He wasn't in Meira's life anymore.
None of this was the freedom he thought he'd wanted.

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#38. 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.

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

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#40. 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.

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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.

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#43. 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.

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#44. Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.

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#45. I was right --skirts are inventions meant to make running harder.

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#46. You'll only regret the time it took you to make the decision.

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#47. 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.

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#48. Loving her was easy, a skill he had picked up methodically until one day he did it without thought.

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#49. traditional Winterian clothing for women consists of pleated, ivory, floor-length dresses, most of the men wear blue tunics and pants under lengths of white fabric that wrap in an X around their torsos.

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

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#51. I'm asking you to love me and let me... die.

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#52. 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.

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#53. I may be alone, the stone may not be magic, but I am not weak.

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#54. It makes me feel both strong and weak at the same time, like I could lean too much on him, on the support he's offering, and lose myself behind him. After

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

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#56. The world is changing. We cannot deal with the problem as we have in the past, or we will always end up where we started.

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#57. 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.

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

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#59. 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.

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#60. It's a weapon we have, and we need all the weapons we can get

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#61. That's what I'm fighting for.
Possibility.

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#62. 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.

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#63. Use id not a right, Queen Meira --it is a privilege.

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#64. LIke we had never loved each other at all.

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#65. 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.

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#66. It feels so wrong and yet so wonderful, how much I need to smile at him. Something

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

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#68. 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.

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#69. You've always been /everything/ to me. I didn't know how to handle how much I needed you growing up---snow, I still don't, all right?

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#70. Just because it wouldn't cure everything doesn't mean it wouldn't make things better than they are.

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#71. 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.

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#72. 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.

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#73. But that was war did. It made people realize the importance of stupid things.

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#74. I refuse to let him go, not like this, not while I will always, always need him.

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#75. 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.

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#76. A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.

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#77. There will always remain differences that can't be glossed over with smooth words.

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#78. Leaders are valued for the wring things.

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#79. Lifetimes have changed in what feels like a heartbeat.

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#80. Someday, we will be more than just words in the dark.

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#81. Summer Kingdom farthest west, Autumn next, then Winter, and finally the Spring Kingdom on the Destas Sea.

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#82. It is amazing what you can hide when no one knows what to look for.

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#83. When you're a teenager, being different- if it's not by choice - seems like the worst thing imaginable. But is it really?

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#84. We'll handle the future one thing at a time.

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#85. He stares into the sky, his eyes absent and empty, an expression that branded its horrible meaning into my mind long, long ago. A candle without a spark, a sky without a sun, the look people get when they cease to be people, start being bodies.

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

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#87. I want to be someone worthy of my kingdom. I want to be someone worthy of /you/.

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#88. All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

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#89. How quickly the mighty fall.

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#90. Readiness is a type of choice, being prepared and accepting of things to come...

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#91. 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.

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#92. 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.

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#93. 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.

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#94. I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can't bear to face.

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#95. Like he's staring at me because he wants to, not because he's questioning himself.

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

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#97. White strands stream around me, some matted with sewer muck, but most tossing in the wind. A living snowstorm, a vibrant white reminder that they haven't enslaved every Winterian.

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

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#99. 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.

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#100. What's rare is to have a good, strong man, as opposed to a good, weak man. Those are the ones who ruin the world. Men who mean well, but buckle under others' opinions until their good intentions destroy an untold number of lives." My

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