On These Black Sands Quotes

“...this felt like coming home, like finding that one place where she belonged after living her whole life feeling off kilter.”
― Vanessa Rasanen, On These Black Sands

“Looking into her eyes felt like returning to the home he desperately missed. And the shock of that realization threatened to suffocate him, ripping the breath from his lungs.”
― Vanessa Rasanen, On These Black Sands

“A chance for the adventure we’d read about. For the love we’d witnessed on the pages of books.” “And you never did? Never dreamed of that, I mean?” “No.” Another quick answer. “It was a fantasy. Something to be read on the page, as real for me as the dragons and elves in fantasy stories. Something I’d never see or feel in real life.”
― Vanessa Rasanen, On These Black Sands

“After days of seeing nothing but worry and fatigue in his features, this classic smirk of his brought some life back into his eyes and made him look more like the dashing hero than the cruel pirate.”
― Vanessa Rasanen, On These Black Sands

“But here I am, a wreck of a man, drowning in uncharted waters.”
― Vanessa Rasanen, On These Black Sands

“Magic hadn’t made life easier for her ancestors or all the people of the Aisling who’d fought and died in the war. War brought death, whether one had magic or not. War showed no mercy, paid no heed to the powers one wielded.”
― Vanessa Rasanen, On These Black Sands

“She’d known her whole life she wasn’t destined for love or family or normalcy, but for service to her land and her people. She’d accepted that. It was how things had to be to keep the peace. But she couldn’t deny the look in her sister’s eyes, and she couldn’t cause her sister pain.”
― Vanessa Rasanen, On These Black Sands