Star Mother Quotes

“Our souls are like blisters,” he said, a whisper of smile flavoring the words. “The irritant, the hardship, the pain, will make your skin tougher. Stronger.” He delicately touched the sore spot. “But take that away, and you take away the growth.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Like you, her scars mark her journey.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Manage it, escape it, or grow with it. Pain, I mean.” I noticed the fire didn’t reflect in his eyes. “But you can’t forget it. Even if you could, you would lose the strength it gave you. There is always strength in pain. It’s small and it’s hidden, but it’s always there.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Mortals have always been fond of stories,” he supplied. “Of course.” Turning about, I hiked back toward my bags. “We don’t live long enough to remember who we are without them.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Time may be eternal, but it should not be wasted.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Endwever”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Ristriel lifted his head, eyes meeting mine. “Remembering can be the worst kind of hurt.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“In that moment, the universe was only us, shadow and starlight, lovers dancing in wild grass under the violet haze of twilight.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“There is something peculiar about human beings and their need to worship. Their need to find hope outside themselves.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Let us live long lives at each other’s sides, and die together when it is time,”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Remembering can be the worst kind of hurt.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“thought of Endwever. “Sometimes it’s better not to be seen.” “But it is lonely,” he countered, and his next words sounded far away. “It is very lonely.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“With the Sun, of course. They have always battled over the heavens. Sun is older, and He resented her for stealing His light and encroaching on His territory. She resents Him for being what she is not, and hates Him even more for shrinking her, scarring her. But He is of the law and must enforce it. Such is His nature. The moon does not like being disregarded simply because she is young. Since she is less. They have warred and peaced for millennia. Like you, her scars mark her journey.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“My loneliness led me to mourn my family, however different we were from one another. We had loved one another, in the end.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“Second, I mourned for myself. I mourned being alone in a strange place. I mourned my happy, playful self, because I was sure she had been scorched away along with my innocence.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“There is a balance in the universe, which is ever shifting. It is never easy and always painful. Your kind glimpses only a sliver of it.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“I had not tried to be clever or poetic, or even brave. I had simply let my heart speak for me.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother

“No mortal should ever have to be convinced they were worthy of every breath they took, and no celestial being should have to, either.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, Star Mother