Sky Children Quotes

“He hadn’t deserved the sort of love and loyalty Blue had given him without question since they’d been mere boys. Two rebellious kids with only one another to depend on in the whole world. Senseless or wise, they had both been fools in the end.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“It felt like he had lived ten lives since he had first stepped out into the streets, and each life seemed to be more draining than the next. It was a weariness that penetrated his very bones and made him more desperate than ever for the freedom he had once been offered.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“There had been no pain or death on Lacuna, no suffering. There was only the cycle. His mother had taught her children that an Ezri would never experience death in the way humans understood it, their bodies were only laid to rest, a short respite before they returned in another form to fulfill their timeline. The”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“Dark as night, his mother had crooned when he had reached his fifth year, her slender hands smoothing his hair away from his forehead gently, hair as deep and dark as the fathomless space between the stars, as ebon as the eyes of their people, sometimes I mistake you for a shadow.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“We’ve met before?” Caden murmured and Senka shook his head. They had passed one another in dreams and in lives that Senka could only catch in glimpses, in a remembered smell, or a sudden shiver down his spine as a familiar face glanced his way.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“I remember kissing you and thinking that you could destroy me if you wanted. I was terrified of losing you. The way you lived, the way you gave yourself away, pieces of yourself night after night, until there was nothing left for me.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“He had known, but he had never heard those words directed towards him before in any seriousness, not from his own mother, not from anyone who he had ever craved love from, and he realized that they carried an almost unbearably heavy weight.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“I slept for a lifetime and I dreamt of the moment I would see you again.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“He had always been her biggest mistake, but at least he had been a very pretty one.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“Didn’t anyone ever tell you not to fall in love with broken things?”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“Blue passed his tongue over his lips, tasting strong liquor, and beneath that something earthy, a trace of himself that had lingered in Ace’s mouth-- a hint of graveyard dirt.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children

“He was beautiful in a way that pierced the heart. He was beautiful in the way the universe had been made, from darkness and silence into light and song.”
― A.M. Daily, Sky Children