The Lost Sun Quotes

“Dreams are sometimes all we have.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“There are some consequences so unacceptable we have to fight against them every day.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“I know grief, and it is a chasm.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“My power is a dance. I am its partner, not its slave.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“Consequences. They rage inside me, that black chaos of night sky wedged under my ribs. There are some consequences so unacceptable we have to fight against them every day.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“I can feel her hunger, can see the want in her eyes. Her teeth grow sharp - sharp enough to eat me. And she wants to. She lets me see it, lets me feel the churning hunger that is so like rage. It gasps and begs in her stomach, the way my frenzy cuts and spirals in my chest.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“And like that, our destinies snap together.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“Under the sun, and to the edges of the world.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“You know how, when you dream, sometimes you don't remember anything but what kind of dream it was? Frightening or hilarious or just strange? How there's only the feeling of it like a ghost in your mind?”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“My mom used to say that in the United States of Asgard, you can feel the moments when the threads of destiny knot together, to push you or pull you or crush you. But only if you're paying attention.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“The man who became our friend is only a dream.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“An unused weapon is a danger to its owner, as much as to others.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“I don't remember everything that happened, and I'm looking forward to the tale. But I know, I feel, that it was good. Even if I did die. It was a damn excellent dream.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“I will never forget you,' she whispers, 'and somewhere inside, you'll know.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“Soren, this is my mother, Jenna Glyn. Mom, this is Soren, my ...' She blinks and shakes her head before saying, '... my everything.'
Jenna's eyes widen in horror, and I don't mind because I dislike her, too. Vehemently.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“But I suspect if I asked, she would tell me that the prayer itself has power, regardless of who hears it.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“Back in the car, we pass turnoffs for the Lakotas Buffalo Reservation and several pioneer homesteads turned into state monuments. There are bronze National Historic Site markers every five miles or so along the road. The quiet, the utter lack of people makes me feel watched. I continue glancing in the rearview as I drive, searching for pursuit.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“The morning news hour ends with Evelyna Salsdottir, the champion poet of New Asgard, reciting her award-winning song “Sunfall in Mesa Verde.” It’s about vanishing people, and the memories they leave behind, like the longest shadows cast as the sun sets.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“I say, 'But he does not have you,' and I kiss her through the orchard gate.
It's a kiss I have longed to take. A kiss that gently tugs at Astrid's seething power, at the wildness inside both of us. It's sweet and feels like a confession: I love her.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“You're mine tonight,' she says.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“I'm certain of my rightness, that this battle is mine to be won. He killed my lord. He destroyed my father. He imprisoned Astrid. All these are his crimes, and I am here to cleave them away, to set his blood free into the ground and release him, release myself of the responsibility. That is the blood price.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“This is too complicated for unthinking obedience.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“There are no innocents here; there are no people in this valley who are not culpable.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun

“After raging, you need meat or water or alcohol or sex. Sometimes all of the above.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun