The Beholder Quotes

“You will always be the sun to me. Bright and beautiful and the warmest thing in my world.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“The things we like are different. The things we love are the same.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“Where I craved stillness in written words or in the dirt or in church, they longed to be side by side, racing and chasing and crowding each other, only able to breathe if their lungs were burning.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“My heart was a burning star, singeing my lungs, setting fire to my nerves.

Was it my fault, really, that my chest couldn't hold it?”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“He'd left me burning brighter than the candles.

Now I just felt burned.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“Courage is the heart of me," he said. "The thing I pray to be. And I see it in you. It's in your eyes every time you tell me something you are afraid to say or try something you are afraid to do.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“I gamble on forgiving people as often as I can.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“I'd never been less self-conscious in my life, and it was intoxicating. We were a racing pride of lions, a stampede of horses, a herd of beasts running wild, invulnerable and free and thrilled with the mad beating of our own hearts.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“I had no idea what to make of the boy in front of me, or what to do with him, except to play his game and see if I liked it.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“One detour. A few weeks of my life- and my fathers to help save a continent.
I was done looking for suitors. Whether or not I'd ever see Torden again, I'd already fallen in love.
It was time to stop playing Alessandra's game and join a fight that mattered.
Time to begin writing my own story. To begin doing something worth writing about at all.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“I was straw in a breath of wind. I was glass shattered on stone. I was the soft red flesh of a heart, vulnerable to every sharp thing in its path.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“I think the powerful would love less the fruits of violence if they had to deal it out by hand.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“Wonders and horrors filled my dreams that night. I didn't know if the blood came first, or the water.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“Because if Asgard's daughters are its bridges, Asgard's sons are its walls." He grit his teeth, closing his eyes. "And Asgard's sons do not leave.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“A mere two feet a way and a world apart.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“My pale skin, green eyes, and freckles told everyone we weren't blood. Her coldness told them we weren't family.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“...her words hemmed my fraying edges, bracing me where I threatened to come apart.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“Torden had told me to be free. And I was finally tall enough to jump Alessandra's fences.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“It will not be easy, but we could build something good together. Something that would endure.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“My heart was a lit candle, a forest fire, a burning star.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“For a moment, I felt the thousand books stacked quietly around us and imagined that Bear had heaped them up just for me, like children in a fort of blankets and cushions.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder

“Momma had been his solid ground, and he'd been her open sky. I wondered if anyone would ever see me that way.”
― Anna Bright, The Beholder