Raven Flight Quotes

“Let there be a time in the future, I prayed, when he laughs with his children, and plays on the shore with them, and spends all his nights in loving arms. Let us have that. To whom I was praying I did not know. The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on fighting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“cherish what you have, for in an instant it can be gone. And when it’s gone, let the memory not be a weight that drags you down, but a bright light leading you forward.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“But some things did not change...
Courage, for instance. Dedication to a cause. Comradeship. When they were strong and pure, when they came from deep in the bone, those qualities could hold fast against all odds.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“Another man might have taken vengeance in blood and fire, or made an end of himself. Regan is stronger than that. There's a light shining in him, moving him forward: the light of freedom. That's what draws all of us to follow, to take risks, to keep on figting when we see our comrades fall beside us. But there's no light without shadow.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“Every man and woman who stood here and watched this unfold without protest, every single person who failed to speak up against what they must surely know to be wrong, was as guilty as Keldec himself. The stain of it was on us all.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“When the rebellion comes, I thought, when our great battle is won, we will restore the Gathering to what it should be. But we will not forget what it was allowed to become; folk need to remember, so this can never happen again.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“For my ancestors,” I murmured. “For my family. For those lost on the journey. For my comrades. For everyone who fights for a better world. May I be guided. May I learn the wisdom of water.” There should be far more to it, but my legs would not hold me up any longer. I could hear the rasp of my breathing; it had sounded just like this when I had fallen so sick last autumn, coming up the Rush valley. “Let me be a vessel for the wisdom of water,” I whispered, then curled up under my sodden cloak and closed my eyes.”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight

“If people can’t dream of better times, if they can’t imagine a future in which they might marry and raise their children, dig their vegetable plot, ply their trade without fear, then the goal of freedom becomes meaningless. Don’t you think?”
― Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight