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…he had learned that a man’s deep friendships were the most important thing he could possess. Things can be broken, or lost. All a man can keep for certain are the things in his mind and heart.
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
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“Their chittering calls to one another vied with the sound of their endless remaking of the world. Axes bit wood into pieces and hammers nailed it back together. Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living among the shattered pieces.“
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
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“Once perhaps his power had been in his body; now he wore it in the richness of his garb and his absolute certainty that no one wished to displease him.“
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
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“…There is something about knowing that someone is taking pleasure in giving you incredible pain . . . with no remorse. It changes how you see yourself; it changes what you can believe of other people. It changes everything.“
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
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“…it seems like worrying is something I feel like I have to do, that maybe worrying about them actually keeps them alive and real.”
“Then she recognized it for what it was. Like her worrying, a useless belief that by thinking a certain way, she could make it so.“
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
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“So let us act as befits who we are, rather than who we think they might be.“
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
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“Now she stared numbly down the hall of closed and opened doors. Choices, some she might make and others closed forever to her. How did one ever know how one small choice might forever change the course of one’s life?“
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
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“They were miserable and hungry and helpless. I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who was miserable, hungry, and helpless who was not also petty and selfish. The situation brings out the worst in everyone.“
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
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“What sort of person would cling to the hope that someone else would return to give meaning to her life? What sort of quivering parasite needed someone else to validate her existence?”
“Her resolution grew as she left the settlement behind. She could change. She wasn’t chained to her past. She could become someone who wasn’t merely a product of what others had done to her. It wasn’t too late.”
“She had a place now and a life, and it was one of her own making.“
–Blood of Dragons (Rain Wilds Chronicles Book 4)
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“She tried to get her panic under control. What was wrong with her? She wasn’t a person who got scared easily. She was competent and strong. She could take care of herself. But not in a situation like this, a situation in which her skills meant nothing and she had no control over the risks involved. That, she realized abruptly, was what she disliked. The risks were wildly out of her control.“
–City of Dragons: Volume Three of the Rain Wilds Chronicles