The Dancers of Arun Quotes

“Gerri loves the Yard. For her the knife and the dance are fun, a delight, a game. One day she’ll waken to the art of it.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Give me people, lots of people, and a way to get away from them when I need to.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“If he could find his brother across the whole of Arun, he could find him in a city.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“The pattern feels right when I’m there.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“I can’t just be the person my teachers wanted me to be. I need to explore-to learn not only what I can do but what I want to do.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Her dark eyes seemed to stare as though she would see into the center of him.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“The swelling voices made him want to hide.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Your sensitivity is acute. It draws you into other minds.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“The more we know, the greater grows our understanding of the chea, and the closer we come to the heart of harmony, to the order that underlies and infuses and springs like breath through all things.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Despite himself, Kerris looked up. Kel was smiling directly at him, a smile so tender and clear that Kerris could only return it. It seemed shameful or cruel to be so happy in the midst of such painful uncertainty, but he couldn’t help it.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“I would let you teach me anything.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“It would be terrible to use the gifts of the chea to make war.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“This is home, Kerris thought. It did not seem as preposterous as it had the day before.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“If he doesn’t know, he will. Your face will tell him.” Warm in the cool room, her fingers laced with his a moment. “He’s a patterner, remember, and a cheari.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“His skin pickled, recalling the intensity of Sefer’s gaze at their fist meeting.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Sefer knows that Kel loves other people. He doesn’t care. He could he? It makes no difference what happens between them.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Waking and sleeping, from the day Morven forbade him the Yard, he had dreamed of his brother, until the night he had sought him out, across the distance, through time, using a gift he still did not understand.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“There was no lover who could compete with a dream.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Do you know what your face says every time you look at him?”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“You may have lost an arm, but there’s nothing missing.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“They can’t be that strong. If they were strong they wouldn’t need to threaten you.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“It’s hard to take a witch by surprise.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Isn’t setting homes to the torch an act of war?”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“It was like seeing two flames joining in the dark.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“He felt as if every thought in his skull, every hope, every desire lay bare to that intense green gaze. Frightened, he backed up.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Elath is the witch town, he thought, and I am a witch.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“You should have been at Elath, among your own kind, five years ago.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“Kel’s hands were firm on his shoulders, holding him, and his voice was clear, inescapable, and unshakable as the mountains. Kerris’s vision blurred and cleared in waves. He waited for the waves to stop.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“He supposed he ought to hate the Asech for killing his mother. It was hard to hate a whole people, especially people he had never met.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun

“We were more intent upon killing than upon building and learning.”
― Elizabeth A. Lynn, The Dancers of Arun