Mystic and Rider Quotes

“You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey
makes its own map across your heart.”
― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider

“She should leave you. Or you shouldn't leave her. I haven't worked it out yet. But you shouldn't be apart.”
― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider

“She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because Cammon could read souls, but Tayse was the only one she would tell.”
― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider

“I am your friend. I will not fail you at your darkest hour. For this, more than the prestige, he had always wanted to be a Rider—for this utter, bone-deep sense of commitment to a unit and an ideal.”
― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider

“She liked the deep stillness of an untenanted night, the pervasive cold that seemed to take corporeal form and lean against her like an affectionate child. She liked the utter blackness of the sky, the stars like spilled sugar across an unswept floor. She liked being alone.”
― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider

“You say I have the power to break you--well, you have changed me, and I did not think I was capable of changing again. I only hope you will not abandon me, so altered and strange to myself, because you think I am too proud to accept your love. I would hate for my life to go on like that, empty of you. I think I would be the one to finally break after that.”
― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider