A Fire Endless Quotes
"Once, Kae had carried thousands of words in her hands. As a spirit of the wind, she had reveled in the power of it—to cradle things that were both fragile and sharp."
"But that had been when she was younger, hungrier, and uncertain of herself."
"To feel the timbres and textures of those many voices, from deep to airy, from melodious to rough-hewn."
"Kae, who had been spun into existence by a stormy northern wind, who had once laughed at gossip and let her wings howl over the crofts of Cadence, had felt her heart splinter when Lorna had died far too young."
"She felt the clouds melt against her face, and listened to the hiss of wind passing through her fingers."
"Sidra Tamerlaine knelt next to his body on the damp sand, searching for a pulse."
"It didn’t matter how skilled she was at healing, how many wounds she had stitched or how many broken bones she had set."
"The tide surged and took hold of Sidra’s ankles like a pair of cold, long-nailed hands."
"Sidra wasn’t sure what had afflicted the boy. What had possibly crept beneath his skin and stained his blood."
"Torin’s blond hair was snarled and his knee-high boots and plaid speckled with mud by the time he reached the Brindle farm."
"He tried to sort through the tangle of his thoughts: the mystery of the blighted orchard, the lad who had worked that orchard now drowned."
"Sidra had come to learn that if she wanted a moment alone with her husband, it would have to be at night."
"Adaira stood in a wind-battered cottage, staring at the dead body crumpled on the floor."
"The clouds hung low, swallowing hilltops and all sense of time."
"It made her heart ache to wonder if they had starved when the snow came."
"She wondered if that was part of the land’s few but compelling charms—its brutal honesty, as well as its untamed aura."
"The sensation had once been jarring to Kae: to observe time flowing so unhindered amongst the humans on the isle and then leave it behind like a moth-eaten cloak."
"Sidra’s throat had constricted, too narrow to allow her to speak."
"Of course they would read her letters to ensure that she wasn’t plotting their demise with her eastern family."
"The spirits are drawn to a harp when it’s in the right hands."
"I’m doing well, finding my place here more and more with each passing day."
"You taste of life and bright sunshine and the secrets that hide deep down in the soil."
"I will tell you another story. Now. Go to bed, Maisie."
"Don’t worry about what others are going to think."
"I’m a bard. I attended the mainland university for ten years before returning home to play for the Tamerlaines."
"Music they had once danced to in the hall was now causing the crops to wither in their kail yards."
"Ice and fire, brought together as one. Sisters divided, united once more. Washed with salt and laden with blood—all united will satisfy the debt you owe."
"The price of defeating him would be very steep, and most are not willing to pay it."
"You carry no weapons but a truth blade," Rab finally echoed, ignoring the taunt of Torin’s letter. "But that also is a lie. Your harp is perhaps more dangerous than any enchanted steel."
"Perhaps you should have thought of that consequence, Moray," Sidra said as she turned away. "Your sentence is ten years."
"Don’t wake me while I sleep, Mad Thief. Or I’ll kill you myself."
"There are many ways to enter these prisons, Mad Thief. But there are only two ways out."
"Married to Cora. I haven’t heard that one yet."
"You chart your present by what has been done and what has happened, as if you can never rise and break away from it."
"To live your life you have forged yourself to be as strong as possible."
"There is nothing weak in being soft, in being gentle."
"I cannot change what I am, no more than you can, Mother."
"I hope the bairn has your eyes and your smile, your laughter and your courage."
"I would rather live a short breadth of days, working with my hands even if they can no longer play a harp, and living with those I love."
"I thought that if you stood at my side while I played that I would be divided, that I would choose you over the spirits."
"I want to write a ballad with you, not in notes but in our choices."
"I think that I want to make such music with you until my last day when the isle takes my bones."
"I would not forget you. I would not allow myself to."
"You reached the place you thought you would never find, and you claimed it as your own."
"Your harp survived... It’s in my room, waiting for you."
"My music became my crown. And I gave my crown away to return to my mortal life."
"Even if I lived a thousand years in the fire, I would not forget you."
"I may not be able to play a harp again, or sing for the clan. But I have found that this is my song."