Sarah Beth Durst QUOTES

2 " Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , Drink, Slay, Love

4 " Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you.
Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you.
Don't trust the water, for it will drown you.
Don't trust the air, for it will choke you.
Don't trust the earth, for it will bury you.
Don't trust the trees, for they will rip you,
rend you, tear you, kill you dead. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia, #1)

6 " You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , Race the Sands

8 " The unicorn, still elegant and radiant, let out a tiny burp. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , Fire & Heist

10 " 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. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , Fire & Heist

12 " Everyone happy with the plan?'
'I'm not happy about any of this,' Zera said.
Kreya one hundred percent agreed with that, as did they all. But they set about doing it anyways, because that was what heroes did. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , The Bone Maker

14 " She had a hundred reasons: because Bear had carved a statue of her in the center of the topiary garden, because she could always make him laugh, because he'd let her return to the station, because he won at chess and lost at hockey, because he ran as fast as he could to polar bear births, because he had seal breath even as a human, because his hands were soft, because he was her Bear. "Because i want my husband back," Cassie said. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , Ice

16 " [Zach] placed his hands on her shoulders so she'd look directly into his eyes. "You know, the moment I saw you, I said to myself -- because all the great people talk to themselves, of course -- I said, 'Zach, you have to meet that lovely lady, because she will make your life extraordinary.' I was not wrong. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , Conjured

18 " The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really should insist Julie come work, She could use the help, plus it would mean extra mother-daughter time--and, Zel thought wryly, I won't have to find a spare tower in the suburbs.
Closing the appointment book, Zel went to finish trimming Linda's hair. "Did I hear a sheep out there?" Linda asked.
"Sick dog," Zel said. "Now, bend your head down." Linda obeyed and Zel ran her fingers through the back of her hair to check for evenness. All she needed to do was think of a way to make Julie come without Julie immediately assuming her mother was trying to ruin her life. Not an easy task. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , Into the Wild (Into the Wild, #1)

20 " You know what this means," Harrison said.
"It means no goodbye," Zoe said, feeling a smile rise up from inside her.
Pipsqueak nuzzled the top of her head. "

― Sarah Beth Durst , Catalyst