Quotes from Sarah Beth Durst

This is what a spark can do.»

You are a lightning guardian. You create lightning. You are the spark that can ignite the world.»

Straight-faced, Hamon said, "I'm honored to be working alongside someone with such expert woodland knowledge, superior battle skills, and an impressive beard." Ven stroked his beard. "Indeed you are.

Cultivate kindness. Never steal anyone's hope.

It's because you finally let yourself be you. The you I know you are. The you who has something to say and finds her own way to say it. Not loud, but determined to be heard.»

Forgettable is fine. I don't want fame; I want happy . . . . . . But I'll settle for content. I don't think that's so strange.

Are you well?" Ven asked the headmistress. "Old age," she replied. "Nothing that a bit of death won't cure.

We are family. No blood binds us, for we have no blood, but we are bound by time and love. You will carry our love and hope with you to the valley, and it will strengthen you.

can't decide if it's pretty or creepy, which, come to think of it, is about the same way I feel about you.

There was something about how it made your heart race, skin tingle, and breath speed. I feel alive, she thought.

I've lived life without you, and I couldn't bear it. Not when I had the strength to save you.

Together, we'll set the world on fire.

I would have lied to you until we died. Sometimes honesty is cruelty, and love is lies.

It's not wrong to ask questions. And if the prime minister is afraid of the answer, maybe that means you asked the right question. And maybe it means you need to ask more.»

They love me. I love them. It should be easy." "Once you leave, it's never easy again. Or at least it's never the same. You're not the same. You can't expect them to be." She nodded. "Sometimes they feel like strangers. And still, I'd die to protect them.

Maybe I can find a place here, even with being different. «Look around,» Pixit said. «You already have one.»

You're upset. Who upset you? Tell me, and I'll bite him." "No biting." "Little nibbles?" "No." "Ferocious licks?" "Ew.

The sun spread into the horizon as if it were melting into the water, an act that, while poetic, would not have been appreciated by the fish.

I decided right then and there that I didn't care what the rest of the class thought, so long as someday I'd become friends with you. Took you a long time to notice I was there. - Gabriela, to Sky

For the first time in my existence, I tell the truth, and I am greeted with lack of belief. This is the universe laughing at me.

I think mascara is creepy," Liam volunteered. "Like lots of spider legs on a girl's eye. Really freaky part is if she starts to cry, and the spider legs dissolve and walk down her cheeks." ... "Girls wear makeup to feel stronger. It's armor for your face. You guys are stuck with the faces you have, which, in your cases, is unfortunate.

Up in the room, I heard one of them say, "Did she say how she's getting to Gabriela's? You don't think she'll try to drive herself?" "Nah," another said. "She has more sense than that." Scooping up my bag, I ran for the garage and stole Liam's car.

I'd like to thank all the pizza and chocolate I consumed during the writing of this novel. This book wouldn't exist without you. In particular, I'd like to call out a slice of balsamic tomato from Luigi's Pizzeria for being my muse.

I require pie before I desecrate a mass grave.