This is a list of my favorite
quote from each book.
Storm Front
Best quote. “Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.”
Fool Moon
“It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand
apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.”
Grave Peril
Bianca's eyes widened. "You are mad," she said.
"You would flirt with chaos, destruction--with war, for the sake of this
one wounded soul?"
I smote my staff on the floor, reaching down for power. Deeper than I have ever reached before. Outside, in the gathering morning, the air crackled with thunder.
Bianca, even Ortega, looked abruptly uncertain, looking up and around, before focusing on me again.
"For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting for."
I smote my staff on the floor, reaching down for power. Deeper than I have ever reached before. Outside, in the gathering morning, the air crackled with thunder.
Bianca, even Ortega, looked abruptly uncertain, looking up and around, before focusing on me again.
"For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life." I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. "The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting for."
Summer Knight
“Wait. You don't understand. I just wanted it
to stop. Wanted the hurting to stop."
I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead."
The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand."
I answered, "I don't either."
A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood.
Then she died.”
I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, "The only people who never hurt are dead."
The light died out of her eyes, her breath slowing. She whispered, barely audible, "I don't understand."
I answered, "I don't either."
A tear slid from her eye and mixed with the blood.
Then she died.”
Dead Masks
“I am blind and limited. I would be a fool
think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try
to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I
must be true to my heart.”
Blood
Rites
“Love is another kind of power, which shouldn't
surprise you. Magic comes from emotions, among other things. And when two
people are together, in that intimacy, when they really, selflessly love each
other it changes them both. It lingers on in the energy of their lives, even
when they are apart.”
Dead Beat
“Fear is a part of life. It's a warning
mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to
help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.”
Proven
Guilty
“A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride
and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don’t care about
whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people
who stand by you without flinching—they are your family. And they were my
heroes.”
White
Night
“Being a wizard gives you more power than most,
but it doesn't change your heart. We're all human. We're all of us equally
naked before the jaws of pain.”
Small
Favor
“Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human,
and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own
risk.”
Turn Coat
There's power in the night. There's terror in
the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we
remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on
the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear....”
Changes
“But there were some things I believed in. Some
things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or
how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the
Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine.
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.”
Ghost Story
“Courage is about learning how to function
despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to
the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when
every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then
following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.”
Cold Days
“No one just starts giggling and wearing black
and signs up to become a villainous monster. How the hell do you think it
happens? It happens to people. Just people. They make questionable choices, for
what might be very good reasons. They make choice after choice, and none of
them is slaughtering roomfuls of saints, or murdering hundreds of baby seals,
or rubber-room irrational. But it adds up. And then one day they look around
and realized that they're so far over the line that they can't remember where
it was.”
Skin Game
I want to read this a second time to figure
this out.
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