Quotes from Sherry Thomas

I will keep you safe," he murmured. He meant it. As long as he was safe, she was safe. But how long would he remain safe?

You might be the scariest girl I've ever met," he told her. "Let's not be dramatic," she said drily. "I'm the only girl you can remember ever meeting.

There existed something in this world that bound a mage tighter than a blood oath: love. Love was the ultimate chain, the ultimate whip, and the ultimate slave driver.

Was it possible—was it at all possible that she could come out of her most desperate choice with a man as clever as Odysseus who looked like Achilles and made love like Paris…?

No," she replied, her voice barely audible. "I thought we might create some sparks together. But now I know nothing we do will ever rival the passionate embrace between a hunting rope and a snake.

You have been all my moments of grace.

All your emotions were so intense—your anger like daggers, your unhappiness a poisoned well. Even your love had such sharp corners and dark alleys.

It was the beginning of the end. Or perhaps, it was only the end of something that was never meant to begin.

You don't know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the stars are filled with your silence.

Some things in life were truly difficult. Finding the source of the Nile, for example. Or exploring the South Pole. But falling out of love with a man who never looked at her twice, why should that prove an insurmountable challenge?

Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

But sometimes the males of the species brought home shiny, beautiful things, with hope burning in their hearts.

Because being in love does not give you any excuse to be less than honorable, Lady Tremaine.

I see you are still determined to not listen to me about not venturing abroad after lights-out.' She sat down across from him at the worktable. 'I never listen to you when I know enough to make up my own mind.

Was unhappiness really so invisible? Or did people simply prefer to turn away, as if from lepers?

I'm afraid. Terrified." "As you should be. As am I. But don't forget, sir," She reached through the bars and took hold of his hands, her own hands steady, her gaze clear and calm. "That I am a queen upon this board. And I do not play to lose.

Some hopes were weeds, easy to eradicate with a yank and a pull. Some, however, were vines, fast growing, tenacious, and impossible to clear.

They say that when an elemental mage called forth flame, she stole a little from every fire in the world. That would make Iolanthe Seabourn quite the thief.

If God doesn't want people to lie, he shouldn't have given the best liars such earnest and innocent faces.

During terms, Professor Marsden lives in Cambridge with his wife, chess player extraordinaire and distinguished physician and surgeon Bryony Asquith Marsden. His favorite time of day is half past six in the evening, when he meets Mrs. Marsden's train at the station, as the latter returns from her day in London. On Sunday afternoons, rain or shine, Professor and Mrs. Marsden take a walk along The Backs, and treasure growing old together.

He did not look like an archangel—if archangels looked as he did, there would be no women of virtue left in Paradise.

And that is why You do not trifle with the Master of the Domain.

I am not "just" a girl - no woman is. And if Heaven has deposited me at this time and place, then I am meant to deal with these problems, no matter their scale or consequence.

What is courage but strength in the face of fear?