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Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1) QUOTES

Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1) QUOTES

1 " There is nothing but heartache for a coru woman and a hunti man," she said, deliberately contrary. "He cannot control her and she cannot change him."

"He never fails her and she always moves him," Darien corrected. "She can trust his strength, and he can be lifted by her joy. "

― Sharon Shinn , Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1)

2 " it was as if that long-healed wound was raw again; all the complex memories crowded once more to the forefront of her mind. An old despair should not feel so new, but a new despair could haul an old one out of hiding. "

― Sharon Shinn , Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1)

3 " Thank you, no,” Zoe said, speaking with an effort. “If I have something to occupy my hands, perhaps my heart won’t hurt quite so much. "

― Sharon Shinn , Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1)

4 " She almost laughed. “I think you’re a man who gathers up power like a child gathers up wildflowers in the woods.”

  “Responsibility, maybe,” he said. “Not necessarily power.”

  “Harder to gather handfuls of lake water or rain,” she said.

  “I know,” he said. “I don’t expect to be able to harvest you. "

― Sharon Shinn , Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1)

5 " I suppose that in general I am not a contrary sort of person,” she said, her voice muffled.

  His eyes were narrowed; he was making no attempt to disguise the fact that he really wanted to peer inside her soul. “And yet you are the daughter of a sweela man,” he murmured. “You cannot be as tame as you appear. There must be passion in you that can be roused by something . There must be something you would fight for, or against.”

  “I am a woman of water,” she replied. “I am more likely to slip away in stealth than to blaze up in wrath.”

  He looked dissatisfied. “All men and women have a little wood and bone in them. Somewhere, from some ancestor. Something that will not back down. Something that will not give way.”

  She turned her right hand palm up and studied the faint lines. “There must be bone in me somewhere, or I could not hold my shape,” she said. “But these days all I can feel is blood. "

― Sharon Shinn , Troubled Waters (Elemental Blessings, #1)