Arcus Quotes

“You don’t know the effect your words have on me, Lady Firebrand. It took years to build up this ice. You will melt it and then I will be broken.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“Did Brother Thistle train you in the most effective methods of communicating with me?"
His head lifted and his lips curved. “He may have given me some advice.”
“And you took it?” My brows rose.
“I’m experimenting with it. If it doesn’t work, I’ll go back to my tried and true method.”
“By which you mean threats and orders.”
His smile widened.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“If we all had names to suit us, you’d be called Thorn in My Backside. Or Plague of the Gods.”


I prickled at his scathing tone. “And you’d be Miserable Blockhead.”


“Is that the best you can do?”

“Give me time. I’m half frozen.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“His reasoning was sound, but his remark about carrying me all the way to the river still rankled. “You speak as if I’m as heavy as an ox,” I said. “Last week I was a bundle of sticks.”
“You’re still too thin.”
“Perhaps if I gain some weight, you won’t call me a stick anymore.”
“You may hope to one day be a branch.”
I glanced at him sharply, unable to repress a little flutter of delight that he was bothering to joke with me.
“A log, even,” I suggested.
“Doubtful,” he said wryly.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“How handsome he must have been before he was burned. Heat flared over my skin. How handsome he was now.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood

“I said I didn’t believe in the prophecies. I don’t believe they all come true. I believe we always have choices. Even Sage can’t tell us what is going to happen. Only what might happen. And sometimes prophecies are just wrong.”
― Elly Blake, Frostblood