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181 " 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. "
― Sara Raasch , Ice Like Fire (Snow Like Ashes, #2)
182 " Mather wrapped his fingers around her wrist and pulled her forward, cupping the back of her head as he slid his face down to hers. He hovered just shy of her lips, panting, chocking because, ice above, this moment - this was everything, the entirety of his life expanding from this one act, revolving around her because she was at the center of everything good that had ever happened to him. "
― Sara Raasch , Frost Like Night (Snow Like Ashes, #3)
183 " She couldn’t go through with it. She was weak, or maybe strong—I don’t know what, but she didn’t do it, and I’m just like her. I’m weak and scared and I try so hard, but it’s never enough. No part of who I am is enough, so I tried to be someone else. "
184 " The only thing I've ever said that truly mattered was that I love you. "
185 " We sway back and forth, gentle and steady though the music that pulses from the orchestra is still fast and strong. As if we're saying, We make the music here. Not you. "
― Sara Raasch , Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)
186 " But I know why Mather wanted to believe the stone has magic: 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. "
187 " It makes sense in my head. But it doesn't make sense in my heart. "
188 " I wish I didn't have to force it away - I wish none of us had to, and we were all strong enough to deal with the things that have happened to us. "
189 " Magic is all about choice. Choosing to use it, choosing to surrender to it, choosing to take it from the chasm - choosing to let it break in defense of a kingdom. The most powerful magic of all is choice, and of that power, the strongest choice anyone can make in an act of sacrifice. "
190 " Wanting is a drive. A goal. Without wanting, what would we be? Empty, I think. "
191 " I’m afraid of breaking. "
192 " But nothing in this world plays out as people deserve. Horrible things happen without cause or explanation, leaving slack-jawed horror in their wake. People make decisions without thinking about the results—they just do things, then run off into the dark, never admitting to their mistakes, never apologizing for getting me killed. "
193 " hate her so much, and I hate most of all that she made me hate her. She was my mother—she should have loved me. She should have done a hundred other things that she didn’t do, and now she’s just one of the many pieces of my heart that hurt to touch. "
194 " someone I barely know, says things that make me feel, for the first time in years, like someone who has a say in the horrible events around me. Like someone who matters. "
195 " I should have let that want be my guiding light all these years, but I didn’t. I won’t just apologize, though—I’ve said far too much that was empty over the years. The only thing I’ve ever said that truly mattered was that I love you. So I’ll say that every moment of every day as I do things, not just say things, to prove how much I regret not treating you as you deserve. I love you, Ceridwen. I love you. "
196 " But that was what war did. It made people realize the importance of stupid things. "
197 " I always knew you were worth fighting for," Jesse moaned. "I was just never worthy of fighting for you. "
198 " You've fought for Winter so spectacularly. I am more proud than I have ever been to call you my son, and I will do all I can to help you as you help our Kingdom. But don't forget to fight for yourself as well- there is no shame in that. "
199 " I'm willing to bet that boy of yours thinks you're worth any sorrow. Because you are. "
200 " We have a farewell in Summer," she says in a tone I haven't heard from her in a while - the veil of potential neutrality. "When someone goes on a long journey, those who stay behind wish them the energy of a wildfire. The power to take things that try to hinder you - wind, thrashing enemies - and use them to make you stronger. The power to burn so brightly that all who look will wonder how darkness ever existed in the same world as you." She puts her hand on my shoulder, but her resolve breaks, her eyes glassy. "Scorch this world, Winter Queen. "