Across a Star-Swept Sea Quotes

“Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“We can only be responsible for what we ourselves do.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“We all deserve to live in a world where our rights aren't violated at the whim of our leaders. It doesn't matter if our leaders are kings and queens, or the people who claim to save us from them.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“Love was magma, shooting from the Earth. It had the potential to form pillars of rock that would last for a thousand years or plumes of ash that choked the sky.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“Across the sea and up the stair
The Wild Poppy’s everywhere.
Though southmen search until they’re blind
They know not what they seek to find.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“I was afraid I sounded a bit comical with all my threats. As if I needed a mustache to twirl like some sort of ancient villain.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“She knew that the paint and the clothes and the hair were more than fashion for Persis Blake. They were armor.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“The tiniest of earthquakes seemed to rustle through him, the kind that shakes petals off flowers, as Justen became aware of the gulf between what he was supposed to feel for Persis Blake and what he actually did.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“Day by day, the superficial mask she’d donned chafed more and more; and no matter how many disguises Persis took on as the Poppy, she couldn’t help but feel they fit her better than the one she wore at home.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“Because I know from experience that sometimes its only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“Because I know from experience that sometimes it's only the young ones that are crazy enough to change the world”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea

“It was amazing, all the thoughts that oozed out as soon as a single crack appeared in the surface of your beliefs.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Across a Star-Swept Sea