Top 120 Sara Raasch Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The question tumbles out of my mouth like a smooth stone in a stream, its edges worn clean by how often I roll it around in my head.”

— Sara Raasch

52. “I’m Hannah’s daughter. I’m Winter’s conduit. I’m a warrior, a soldier, a lady, a queen, and most of all, as I plunge across the snowfield toward Jannuari’s silent ruin, I’m Meira.”

— Sara Raasch

53. “You act as though love is a goal you only achieve after so long spent working at it. And yes, work is involved, but at the end of it all, love is a choice – the kind you have with a spouse, with your people, with yourself. If you acted on those things only when you felt them, you’d be like most people – eternally waiting for a feeling that may or may not come. But if you choose, every day, to love yourself.”

— Sara Raasch

54. “He is an anchor too. Something to hold on to when all other things drag me down.”

— Sara Raasch

55. “Rares claps his hands. “When you’re finished, dear heart, feel free to leave the books on the table, as disorganized as you possibly can.” He motions to a table behind me, situated in a break in the rows of books. “The librarian in residence in charge of the Library of Clarisse is an offensively irritable man, and I would like nothing better than to make unnecessary work for him.”

— Sara Raasch

56. “He’d entered this war to save his sister. Now he’d have to win it to save them all.”

— Sara Raasch

57. “If stubborness were all that was needed to be a good queen, I’d rule the world.”

— Sara Raasch

58. “I drop down the tower and roll on the roof, breaking into a run, the cold night air blowing me faster, the darkness and gleaming stars taking me somewhere I don’t have to feel.”

— Sara Raasch

59. “I don’t need made-up strength. I’m strong enough on my own – me, Meira, no magic or conduit or anything.”

— Sara Raasch

60. “And I had one of the guards tend to this.” Mona lifts my chakram. “It’s sharpened.” Mona is my favorite.”

— Sara Raasch

61. “Summer Kingdom farthest west, Autumn next, then Winter, and finally the Spring Kingdom on the Destas Sea.”

— Sara Raasch

62. “I want to be someone worthy of you.”

— Sara Raasch

63. “That’s how we all are, too hard for what we should be. We should be a family, not soldiers. But all that really connects us is stories, and memories, of what should be.”

— Sara Raasch

64. “That’s how relationships work – when one person is blind, the other must see for them. When one person struggles, the other must remain strong.”

— Sara Raasch

65. “Loving her was easy, a skill he had picked up methodically until one day he did it without thought.”

— Sara Raasch

66. “Silence is infinitely easier than talking.”

— Sara Raasch

67. “Knowing is a worldwide pursuit.”

— Sara Raasch

68. “Magic is all about choice. Choosing to use it, choosing to surrender it, choosing to take it from the chasm – choosing to let it break in defense of a kingdom.”

— Sara Raasch

69. “In a burst of movement I’m up the crates, scaling the wall, and rolling onto the tiles of the roof next to me, a handful of stories in the air.”

— Sara Raasch

70. “Unification should be the overall theme of a relationship.”

— Sara Raasch

71. “The world is changing. We cannot deal with the problem as we have in the past, or we will always end up where we started.”

— Sara Raasch

72. “I know he sees it, because for the briefest moment he drops his expressionless mask and the look in his eyes shows me he feels the same way. A mirror of every part of myself I can’t bear to face.”

— Sara Raasch

73. “Kari stood only a few paces away, but she felt out of reach, fading farther and farther beyond an ocean of regret and pain.”

— Sara Raasch

74. “Just Meira,” Theron echoes. He adjusts his arms around my back and looks across the distance between us, then nods decisively. “We’ll be all right. Together.”

— Sara Raasch

75. “The most powerful magic of all is choice, and of that power, the strongest choice anyone can make is an act of sacrifice.”

— Sara Raasch

76. “Everything really is about choice, even beyond the magic’s rules.”

— Sara Raasch

77. “Just because it wouldn’t cure everything doesn’t mean it wouldn’t make things better than they are.”

— Sara Raasch

78. “I stop, staring into the teardrop-shaped room, my heartbeat an alive and determined creature trying to claw its way out of my throat.”

— Sara Raasch

79. “That, I think, i a truer mark of belonging somewhere – being willing to do anything, everything, that needs to be done, regardless of what I want.”

— Sara Raasch

80. “You matter” is all he says.”

— Sara Raasch

81. “That’s not fair, throwing out compliments like that. Do you know how dangerous those things can be?”

— Sara Raasch

82. “Like he sees me, truly sees me, no matter how I am... Like he sees all the sacrifices he’s made and doesn’t regret a single one.”

— Sara Raasch

83. “My sister used to say you could tell a person’s character by what they considered their weaknesses, rather than their strengths.”

— Sara Raasch

84. “You’ve fought for Winter so spectacularly, and I am more proud than I have ever been to call you my son. But don’t forget to fight for yourself as well – there is no shame in that.”

— Sara Raasch

85. “White strands stream around me, some matted with sewer muck, but most tossing in the wind. A living snowstorm, a vibrant white reminder that they haven’t enslaved every Winterian.”

— Sara Raasch

86. “You may have trapped me in this... but you aren’t the first man to underestimate me, so may I advise you to start treating me with a little more respect, King Noam.”

— Sara Raasch

87. “Most cathartic things are morbid.”

— Sara Raasch

88. “One flake falls, twisting down through the empty sky. One frozen speck of snow. Then another, and another, and before I know it the roads will be covered in dozens of distinct flakes. All these little pieces combining to create one giant, volatile snowstorm, something beautiful and dangerous and epic.”

— Sara Raasch

89. “Soon he’ll know the blizzard started with me.”

— Sara Raasch

90. “You’re impossible,” I growl, and rip open the book. Theron laughs and scoots a little closer to me. “Impossible, endearing. Synonyms, really.”

— Sara Raasch

91. “In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.”

— Sara Raasch

92. “Just someone who gets bounced around in whatever position needs to be filled, used and used like a candle on a moonless night until I burn away into a puddle of compliance and obedience.”

— Sara Raasch

93. “Theron cocks up a corner of his mouth, studying me in a way that doesn’t feel possessive or condescending. It feels equal. Warmth.”

— Sara Raasch

94. “No one should be forced to be something they aren’t.”

— Sara Raasch

95. “I wanted to be a soldier. Someone who would earn standing in Winter. Someone Sir would look at with pride. Someone Mather would look at and –.”

— Sara Raasch

96. “It doesn’t matter what I would do with magic, because leaders are valued for the wrong things.”

— Sara Raasch

97. “Permanent peace and balance is an impossible goal. Far better would be to strive for a general state of equality, so that no matter what evils one kingdom might conjure, they would never be undefeatable. And.”

— Sara Raasch

98. “Like he’s staring at me because he wants to, not because he’s questioning himself.”

— Sara Raasch

99. “I have no idea how to go about bridging the distance between us- I just keep telling myself, maybe foolishly, that when he’s ready, he’ll talk to me again.”

— Sara Raasch

100. “This was the difference between a free kingdom and slavery, happiness and misery, life and death.”

— Sara Raasch