Skylark Quotes

“I don't want to be kept safe! I don't want to have someone constantly trying to keep me from tripping on my own incompetence. I want to live in a world where I know the rules, where people are just people. Not one where they keep trying to eat me. That's the reason I left the city in the first place. I don't want to be kept, not by anyone.”
― Meagan Spooner, Skylark

“With a pang, I realized I missed more the feeling of belonging than I missed my actual family – I had never realized that even as the odd one out, I was still a part of a greater whole.”
― Meagan Spooner, Skylark

“Vis in magia, in vita vi.” In magic there is power, and in power, life.”
― Meagan Spooner, Skylark

“Gravity could not possibly be enough to keep me from falling up into that pit of blackness.”
― Meagan Spooner, Skylark

“We left the field of metallic corpses behind and walked across the valley beneath the vast and terrible beauty of the dawn.”
― Meagan Spooner, Skylark

“The air’s movement was fitful and gusty, inconsistent at best and startling. There was a strange wildness to its smell. I walked through the whispering, knee-high grass in the clearing, listening to the wind sigh and scream through the trees and the rubble. It robbed me of breath, stole my soul. Wind.”
― Meagan Spooner, Skylark

“I’d spent my life until now as a cog in one person’s machine – could I turn around and become the instrument of another.”
― Meagan Spooner, Skylark