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141 " Like he sees me, truly sees me, no matter how I am... Like he sees all the sacrifices he's made and doesn't regret a single one. "
― Sara Raasch , Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, #1)
142 " 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)
143 " I miss him. So much my chest aches, and I can't believe the ache hasn't killed me yet. "
144 " This day has done its best to pick me apart, one emotional event after another. "
145 " I take the chakram, my eyes on Mather. "I'm not me without it, am I?"A smile flips across his face before he shakes his head. "You're perfect the way you are. "
― Sara Raasch , Frost Like Night (Snow Like Ashes, #3)
146 " It hasn't been more than a couple of weeks since I saw him, but my mind throbs with missing him, and I wonder if that pain has been here all along, and I just haven't noticed it. "
147 " cup my hands over my face and exhale, inhale, exhale again. Just keep breathing. No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me. Who "
148 " The way he says it is a promise and a declaration and a plea all in one. "
149 " That's how we all are, too hard for what we should be. We should be a family, not soldiers. But all that really connects us is stories, and memories, of what should be. "
150 " The question tumbles out of my mouth like a smooth stone in a stream, its edges worn clean by how often I roll it around in my head. "
151 " Flags snap in the breeze above us, banners with a lavender stalk in front of a golden maple leaf on a green background. "
152 " 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, choking 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. "
153 " Horrible things don't happen in crowded places; they happen in the hollows of the world. "
154 " Even the smallest of groups could inflict damage. "
155 " Use id not a right, Queen Meira --it is a privilege. "
156 " Readiness is a type of choice, being prepared and accepting of things to come... "
157 " He is an anchor too. Something to hold on to when all other things drag me down. "
158 " This was the difference between a free kingdom and slavery, happiness and misery, life and death. "
159 " To break one’s mask in the presence of someone you reject is an act of permanent separation. To say that you are finished with them in your life, so much so that you do not worry about them seeing your true face. You’ll never see them again, so your secrets are nothing in their hands. "
160 " In a burst of movement I’m up the crates, scaling the wall, and rolling onto the tiles of the roof next to me, a handful of stories in the air. "