Untethered Sky Quotes

“When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“People have short memories, but nature is patient and implacable.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“Any defiance of the wild leads at best to a fragile, temporary victory. Nature and fate are their own capricious monsters, ones that cannot be tamed any more than a roc ever truly belongs to her ruhker.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“I know this as much as God knows every creature, because I once thought there was no reason for me to be alive, no logic to survival, no meaning to be found past endurance of loss, yet there was.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“Nothing compares to the feeling of riding back to the mews with a trophy tied to your chariot like a conquering hero. On those days, you feel as if you and your roc are one. Zahra and I were complete; we were the sun and the wind, the sky and the earth, life and death, above the world and untouchable.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“I wanted to be the monster that kills other monsters.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“I loved her with the gravity of a stone sinking into a pool.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“I could barely stand to look at a creature as dazzling as she was, and at the same time I couldn’t look away.” He stopped and turned toward me, but though he leaned slightly forward, he didn’t continue.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“We didn’t bring up either topic again. Not because we avoided them, but because there was simply no need. Our pasts didn’t matter when we were with each other.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“Some say ruhking is a calling. For me it was an answer to a question that had bored clear through my soul. I had a hole worn through my center, like one of Arnan’s interesting blue river stones. People have admired rocs for centuries. Artists paint them, sculpt them, tell stories about them. I wanted to be one. I wanted to be the monster that kills other monsters.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky