Threshing Day Quotes

“For now, you will heal. You will grow. You will learn. And I promise that while you are the last of your line in this moment, you will never be alone again. You will never see a sunrise where I am not waiting for you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Say the word and I won’t so much as look at another woman.” His gaze meets mine, and I’m trapped again. “Ever.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Everything is a game if you’re smart enough to see the board.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“I mount and begin the next—and last—chapter of my life as Deigh’s rider.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Because you seek power to end harm, instead of the means for victory.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“You will never see a sunrise where I am not waiting for you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“You have yet to earn a first name while your last overpowers it. Why would you seek a dragon as boring as you are?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“It’s a lot easier to simulate feelings than it is to explain to everyone why you don’t actually have them anymore.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“We have that in common, grandson of Maxim Riorson.” She lowers her head to a combat position. My brow furrows and pain flares again as my left eye begins to swell shut. “I’m the grandson of Corbin Riorson. Maxim was my great-uncle.” She blinks. “If your grandmother said so, I suppose.” What the fuck? My mind races. Would that mean… No. Dad is the oldest twin and—”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Am I meeting the dragon version of…me? “You seek a dragon to keep you in check, while I seek a rider capable of sharpening my edges instead of blunting them like my elders. Too bad.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“And you’re one to talk. You think I don’t see the way you stare at the general’s daughter when you think no one is looking? The one who happens to be in your chain of command?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“I’m curious. Your brother is your mother’s son, and your sister is your father’s daughter, so to whom do you belong?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“I not only require unflinching honesty from you but for you to have unflinching honesty with yourself”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Swear to the gods, you have the patience of a saint for every marked one but me. Why is that, Imogen?” The sound of my name on his lips threatens to turn my stomach gooey, so I shut that down immediately. “Because I don’t like you.” “Now, now. There’s no reason to lie.” He grins, and that dimple pops again. “Is it that hard to believe a woman is immune to your charms?” I keep my gaze forward, scanning the forest around us for the fire-breathing dragons that are supposed to be wandering about. “You think I’m charming?” His grin widens, and I roll my eyes.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“I’d love nothing more than to burn this place to the fucking ground.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“A dragon is surely the greatest gift a god can give.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“I watched others be selected, cadets who broke every rule and didn’t bother to conceal the hatred in their hearts, while I did everything right. And all it got me was a two-week stay in the infirmary and an instruction to do it all over again!”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Come the first of October, no matter the weather, day of the week, or physical condition of the cadets, so long as they have reached the age of twenty, the first-years of Basgiath War College’s Riders Quadrant walk into the forest in hopes of being chosen as a bonded rider by a dragon of the Empyrean. We call this monumental event Threshing.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Do you give allegiance to the Codex while you ride the edge of Malek’s doorstep?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“One day your inability to be entirely truthful with someone is going to bite you in the ass.” “Doubtful. My ability to keep secrets keeps people alive.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Say it.” Her eyes almost glow with their intensity. “Tell me what you will do with all this power after you accomplish your mission?” I’ll give her unflinching honesty. “If I live through it?” I let the monster slip its leash a fraction of an inch. “I’d love nothing more than to burn this place to the fucking ground.” To a dragon”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“I’ve loved her from the first time she punched me in the face at nine years old”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Would you like me to fly over and slice that sexual tension for you?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“I will not be made into an instrument of death.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Godsdamn it. Violet would know the answer. No amount of stress would ever diminish the billions of facts that girl keeps in her head. She has an endearingly weird habit of spouting off information to keep herself calm in situations where she’d be better off backing down for her own safety.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Little birdie can fly,”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“To everyone who has ever wanted to linger at Basgiath for just another page or two. See you on the flight field.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Speech fails me. My struggle to regulate my emotions is his catnip?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“Did you die? No. Cease whining.” “She is my best friend. My only friend!” “Her kind killed your mother. Your sister.” She lowers her head into a battle position”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day

“A vise squeezes my ribs, and I’m yanked off my feet as death comes for me. Wind rushes and heat blasts beneath me, rising quickly. My eyes fly open and the air in my lungs gushes out. The ground falls away, and the fireball dissipates as I’m pulled higher and higher into the sky, held between two immovable green talons. Cuir. “I know what agency means to you, what has been taken from you.” A light, mellow male voice cuts into me, and a feeling like home clicks into place. “I will always give you a choice.” Holy shit, I’m not dead. I throw my arms over the talon that’s curved around my torso and hold tight. “But I will not always respect or accept that choice,” he warns as we soar. “So choose now, Bodhi Durran. You may climb and accept this bond, or you may fall to a swift reunion with the parents you miss so dearly.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Threshing Day