Starside Quotes

“He said you rise, always. Sometimes I have to remind myself why. Because sometimes rising is hard.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“I hate you,” I spit into his face, my bones screaming against his pressure, our swords clashed between us. “Hate. Me.” He pushes against my blade. “Harder,” he growls.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“And I think everyone should go on a wild, transformative journey at least once in their lives.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“You are the most reckless person I have ever met. Danger is drawn to you. And you run right toward it. It’s like you’re courting death. It’s like you’re trying to take me down with you.” I didn’t think it possible”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“There is nothing stronger than a woman underestimated.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“I’m helping you, you cranky bastard.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“Great swords meld to your soul. To your heart. And when you let someone into it . . . they can take what’s yours.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“Starside. The land of magic and immortals. A place that is said to glimmer like diamonds and cut like teeth.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“Fucking gods, Raker,” I cry out against the wall as he takes me hard and fast.

One of his massive hands curls around the back of my head, pressing my cheek to the stone.

“No. Fucking me, Aris. Only me.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“These men...
They abducted me. They touched me. They plan to offer me to some lord.
No. I am not a thing to be taken and traded. If they want me, they will have me bloody and broken, because I refuse to go down quietly.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“And now I realize that his silence thus far has been a gift”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“I am older than the dawn of this world—alive before it even had a name.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“The gods only serve themselves,” she says. “Whatever legends you’ve heard about them, they’re worse.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“I have seen both the best and worst of you. I've seen it all. I have seen the evil in you, Raker, which is how I know the good exists.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“With knee-shattering force, my dragon breaks through the arch, shattering the silver beams, and lands right behind me, shaking the ground. I can feel the steam of her breath above my head.
The goddess' eyes widen. "You made a blood oath not to kill me."
"I never said anything about my dragon." I look up at my silver companion. "Eat."
The goddess can't even summon a flicker of power before my dragon swallows her and her thousand gems whole.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“It’s the only magic that matters,”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“Who would be stupid enough to piss you off?” I ask, wondering if they’ve seen him with a sword. Very slowly, his head tilts back up to me. I can feel his gaze locked with mine, even though I can’t see his eyes. His voice is jagged steel against stone. “I don’t know, Aris. You seem to do it quite often.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“I’m here,” I whisper to the goddess who set those fires. “I’m on your side now. There are no gates between us.” I watch the flames flicker. “And when I reach you, you will wish you killed me too.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“No one can heal you in here. You have to step out of the fire. Rise”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“I’m fine. Lovely eyes, by the way. Reminds me of home.” She extends her hand. “Kira, from Brambleside.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“A sword like yours is drawn not just to the strength of one’s abilities . . . but to the strength of one’s soul.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“His limbs are lithe and just slightly too long. The way he moves is almost feline. And his eyes . . . They are a sparkling violet”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“A blade does not fall from the trees. No. It cuts up through the ground”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“Thin silver rootlike markings spread down my throat”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“But the prize at the end of the quest is worth the risk. A goblet full of something that can turn miles of ash to fertile plains”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“Just when I think I can't possibly feel any better, his fingers slip between my legs, to the aching core of me, and-
Fuck.
A burst of pleasure races through my veins, and my head is falling back against his chest, and I'm making a sound I've never made in my life.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“Hate. Me.” He pushes against my blade. “Harder,” he growls.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“Who did this to you?" "You did”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“Drops of magic can be used for medicine, or sold for riches, or—if an entire cup is swallowed—turn a human into an immortal. If they survive the Turn, that is. More often than not, humans don’t, so most challengers don’t risk it.”
― Alex Aster, Starside

“You rise. You rise from the ashes like a phoenix, he told me when I was just a child who wouldn’t stop crying. Phoenixes aren’t real, I told him. “Not here,” he said. Not here. It was the most he ever revealed about the place beyond the gates. The one we’re all now risking our lives to visit. Starside. The land of magic and immortals. A place that is said to glimmer like diamonds and cut like teeth.”
― Alex Aster, Starside