Bookrapt (Est. 1983) > Bookrapt (Est. 1983)'s Quotes

“I want you to come with me when i go. But maybe you will not see your cave again, or the stonee rings where we danced. We will maybe not stay near the sea. Will you be happy?
If I can see your face, he signed, I'll be happy.
he embraced her again. For a long time they stayed with their arms about each other, and Marnie did not notice that the potatoes in the embers were burning black, or that the rabbit had jumped out of its box and was drinking the cup of ale she had placed on the hearth to warm for Father Brannan.”
― Sherryl Jordan, The Raging Quiet

“The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight”
― Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire

“What is your name?' she asked.

The youth ignored her, lowering his eyelids against the sun. She repeated her question. Again he ignored her, so she touched his arm, and he turned his head and looked at her, suddenly back from his own world, his eyes wary, half afraid. But he saw no anger in her; only the stains of tears, and an awful despair. His face changed, and a look of profound sorrow and compassion came over him. Very slowly he lifted his hand and wiped the tears from her cheeks. No other man could have touched her that morning; but the mad youth, with his extraordinary tenderness, gave such a depth of consolation that she found herself leaning her cheek against his hand, and sobbing. He wept with her, and there wove between them an understanding, a unity deep and poignant and powerful.”
― Sherryl Jordan, The Raging Quiet

“People don't lose their lives, Your Majesty. Their lives are taken from them, or else they lay them down themselves."
And which will be your fate, Gabriel?"
I'll lay mine down, Lady.”
― Sherryl Jordan, Secret Sacrament

“Victory does not always come with trumpet-blasts and glory.”
― Sherryl Jordan

“Her spirit is all spit and fire”
― Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire

“This love frightens me, it causes me fear and ecstasy and pain and a thousand other things I never knew I could feel.
It terrifies me, leaves me wounded and open and vulnerable.
But I want you to know it exists.
And I want you to know that if there ever comes a day in your life when you want my love, then it is here.
I will be here.
Always.
That is all I want you to know.”
― Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire

“What can I do, to stop your hurt?"
"Nothing more", she said. "You do everything, and you make me all right. Thank you"
Very gently, he touched her sooty cheek. "If there was a way", he said, "I'd take your hurt and carry it for you".”
― Sherryl Jordan, The Raging Quiet

“And it was then, watching him eat before me, that I realised there was inconsistency in him. He said there was no difference between Chosen and Quelled; he said men were not more sacred than women, nor women less than men; he said we were side by side, matched in every way; he said all these things — but his life spoke differently. He still ate before me, first, as my lord. And in that simple act, he undid all his words.”
― Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire

“They cannot put their stamp upon your soul”
― Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire

“No matter what happens tomorrow,” she whispered, “they can never take away today”
― Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire

“Always at the heart of my life there has been fire.”
― Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire