Flame and Sparrow Quotes

“Then he said, “There isn’t an easy, direct translation into any other language…because it’s more like an idea. A feeling. We have a story in my old kingdom, that when the one you’re meant to be with enters the world, they steal a part of your soul with their first breath. “And you exist, missing that part, until they find you and breathe it back into you.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“For everyone who’s ever been told they’re ‘too much’— Go ahead and burn as brightly as you want to.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“Sometimes we hold on to painful things, I think, because letting them go feels like letting go of the person who gave them to us.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“I don’t know what you were thinking, but I never needed you to swoop in and save me. I don’t need you to burn the world down for me—if I wanted that done, I could do it myself.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“And now I feel like you and that dress should get out of my sight,” he said, “before we do something we’ll both end up regretting.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“I feel…” he replied, slowly, “as though someone should have taught you not to play with fire.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“A monster, but a monster who had gifted me the sun.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“So perhaps I’ll just stand among the ashes with you,” he said, “and admire your work.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“I feel…” he replied, slowly, “as though someone should have taught you not to play with fire.” “I thought we agreed this was not a game?” “True.” The hand against the nape of my neck held me in place as he leaned closer, while his other hand traveled down the curves of my body, coming to rest against the small of my back. “So let’s keep the danger in mind,” he murmured, “and please believe me, Little Sparrow, when I tell you that I could set fire to every inhibition you possess, and when we are finished it will only be you and I among the ashes. I will be the only thing you can think of, and it will not be disdain that you feel toward me, I can promise you that.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“I’d more or less come to the conclusion that anger was a strange well to draw from; the more you drank of it, the thirstier you became.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“You have no idea what he’s done for me, all the—” “What he’s done for you?” “Yes.” “Does he remind you of those things often?” I couldn’t deny this. His eyes narrowed. “So it sounds more like he did those things for him, in hopes of locking you into some sort of contract with unspecified terms.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“But they spoke of the carnage in awed tones rather than fearful ones, so eager to see themselves in the divine that they willingly overlooked the beastly parts.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow

“Sometimes admitting we’re lost is the first step to finding the way, isn’t it?” said the red-haired woman.”
― S.M. Gaither, Flame and Sparrow