Sworn Quotes

“You’re like a bright flame in a dark night. Like a red flower in a field of dead grass.”
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“Stop thinking of me as a flower and start realizing I can be a help to you. The world isn’t going to let me be a delicate, closely guarded thing. I don’t have a choice but to be tougher than I ever wanted to be.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Honors, just like difficulties, were to be faced with courage and strength.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Sometimes it’s the ones tempered by fire who are strongest when you really need them.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“It would be so much easier if I could just be a student instead of always a pawn in a bigger game – and I had no illusions. I was no center of the storm. I was no rook or bishop. I was a pawn and nothing more.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Every time you see me, I’m broken,” he admitted, twisting his fingers together. He looked like he’d exposed his heart and offered me a dagger. What did he think? That I judged him?

“Leng,” I said gently, hobbling to where he was. “I will always be broken. It doesn’t make me weak. When I see you hurt it doesn’t make you weak.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Now that the mess is sorted out, I have urgent business to return to.”

“I thought you were playing cards?” Ephretti said, surprise on her face.

“Precisely.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“What did you do for a friend who had been through what she had?"

"You’re doing it. She needs support and a listening ear. Give her that and the ragged edges will start to heal. The other part, though ... that I’m not sure about.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“Your mutual misunderstandings make me squirm. It’s like watching a dragonlet flame his own tail.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“You could repay it by treating your life with value. Every time I see you, you’re risking it for something!”

He shrugged. “I’m a Dragon Rider. We hold our lives with open hands.”

It seemed like a terrible way to guard something so precious.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“. Honors, just like difficulties, were to be faced with courage and strength.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“You. Can I trust you?”

“You’ve threatened me, belittled me, mocked me and manhandled me.”

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“I’d say that since none of that has achieved the results you wanted, you could certainly afford to choose a different course.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“I didn’t know that princes sat on wooden benches.” Prince Rakturan’s grin was humorless and threatening - as usual.

“I didn’t know that peasant girls ran off to fight Magikas. We learn new things every day. It’s what makes being alive so exciting, am I right?”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn

“I don’t like gratitude so don’t thank me. An apprentice shouldn’t like her master. She should feel terror at his presence.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Sworn