Top 150 Sara Raasch Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Horrible things don’t happen in crowded places; they happen in the hollows of the world, where it’s just a victim and an attacker and no one to hear any screams. “Hang.”

— Sara Raasch

103. “The library door is already open when I dash in, but the room is empty. Books line shelves three floors high, and windows just as tall let in rays of dying sunlight. Three balconies wrap above me and a grand piano stands in the center of the bottom level, but there are no people, not even a servant dusting old books in a corner.”

— Sara Raasch

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

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105. “I miss him. So much my chest aches, and I can’t believe the ache hasn’t killed me yet.”

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106. “Don’t let fear take hold of you – fear is a seed that, once planted, never stops growing.”

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107. “A blade is a blade. Blood can be drawn all the same.”

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108. “I want to look at someone and know that every need and wish and desire i have matches his, not that my every need and wish and desire clashes with his. Unification should be the overall theme of a relationship.”

— Sara Raasch

109. “Feeling like you’re enough has nothing to do with actually being enough – you choose whether or not you are.”

— Sara Raasch

110. “Flags snap in the breeze above us, banners with a lavender stalk in front of a golden maple leaf on a green background.”

— Sara Raasch

111. “Congratulations, everyone,” I announce as I open the door to Noam’s study. “You’ve finally broken Meira, the crazy, orphaned soldier-girl. She’s snapped, all thanks to the mention of floral arrangements.”

— Sara Raasch

112. “I must’ve glided right by him, grouping his half-naked body in with all the other half-naked bodies. In my defense, there are a lot of good examples of Cordell’s training rituals here.”

— Sara Raasch

113. “I refuse to let him go, not like this, not while I will always, always need him.”

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114. “We need to face what we are. All of what we are, especially the parts that hurt.”

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115. “It feels so wrong and yet so wonderful, how much I need to smile at him. Something.”

— Sara Raasch

116. “So tired of Noam and Herod and Sir and Angra and all these arrogant, puppet-master men who hold all the strings and refuse to give them up.”

— Sara Raasch

117. “It’s so cold, every nerve in my body tingling with the wondrous iciness.”

— Sara Raasch

118. “The Winter we know has always been one of our own creation, a kingdom built on dreams. So you’re right, Feige. We’re all Children of the Thaw. Our own hybrid of the past and the future.”

— Sara Raasch

119. “There will always be a they in your new life, Meira. They make decisions; they mold your future. The trick is to find a way to still be you through it all.”

— Sara Raasch

120. “I close my eyes, back straight, face impassive. When I look, I will see someone capable and composed, a warrior and a leader all in one.”

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121. “It hasn’t been more than a couple of weeks since I saw him, but my mind throbs with missing him, and I wonder if that pain has been here all along, and I just haven’t noticed it.”

— Sara Raasch

122. “Mather wrapped his fingers around her wrist and pulled her forward, cupping the back of her head as he slid his face down to hers. He hovered just shy of her lips, panting, choking because, ice above, this moment – this was everything, the entirety of his life expanding from this one act, revolving around her because she was at the center of everything good that had ever happened to him.”

— Sara Raasch

123. “You forgive yourself for what you’ve done,” Edda told her. “You admit mistakes. You learn from them. And you improve.”

— Sara Raasch

124. “Actions are always far easier than words.”

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125. “I am mistakes and victories and death and life. I am competent and powerful and strong, and whatever this war brings my way – even death – I will face it like the queen I am.”

— Sara Raasch

126. “Love is never a sin.”

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127. “You are not a burden, Coal,” he tells me.”

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128. “We can feel like we have the best of intentions,” he whispers, “and still cause disaster.”

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129. “Each story was more heart-wrenching than the last, painting a picture of a world beset by power-hungry men all high on their claims of righteousness and purity.”

— Sara Raasch

130. “It’s so cold that foreigners have to wrap in layers of fur to walk from building to building, while our natural Winterian blood keeps us warm even in the worst conditions. And snow is everywhere, always, so much that the grass beneath it is white from lack of sun. An entire kingdom wrapped in an orb of eternal winter.”

— Sara Raasch

131. “His smile makes me want to swear my soul to whatever god created him.”

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132. “I can’t help this insufferable need to find out what its like to witness every shade of joy on your face.”

— Sara Raasch

133. “It did bring joy, Coal. It brought us together.”

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134. “You’re worth staying for, Kristopher. You. Not what you have to offer people. You are worth it.”

— Sara Raasch

135. “It is amazing what you can hide when no one knows what to look for.”

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136. “How, from the bottom of my heart, dare you.”

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137. “You are not what you’ve done. Who you are right now, this moment, is who you choose to be.”

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138. “Joy can come from grief. From pain. From fear. That’s what I’m choosing.”

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139. “Someone help me, please, because this guy makes me want to learn hymns but only recite them if I’m moaning and I think that might be sacrilege, but I’m okay with damnation if he’s the reason, I just want to know for sure which way is up.”

— Sara Raasch

140. “Joy can come from grief. From pain. From fear.”

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141. “I look fine as hell in it – Christmas Prince, I see no Christmas Prince, just a runway model.”

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142. “Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night.”

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143. “And he talks like a poet, a cadence in his words that’s half song. It cracks my chest apart. Decides something for me that I hadn’t known was an option.”

— Sara Raasch

144. “All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.”

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145. “I am an insatiable sap. A greedy romantic, and I will never get enough of hearing you talk about what I’m doing to you and the reaction your body is having.”

— Sara Raasch

146. “Lock up your kids, Sebastian Walsh might come along and tempt them to fall upon the sacrificial altar of student debt.”

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147. “Emotional hangovers are definitively worse than alcohol hangovers.”

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148. “We are not a Holiday of material goods and staged charity and forced cheer. We are Christmas, and we are joy in the darkness, and we will remember that from this day forward.”

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149. “Every single one of those instances when I thought I was hypnotized by seeing joy on other people, I’d been searching, searching specifically for his joy. Because now that I’ve experienced it, it renders all past joy obsolete.”

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150. “No matter what I want to do, no matter how well I lead or how hard I train, I won’t be able to force life into frozen fields, or cure plagues, or feed strength into soldiers like I would if I could use the conduit. The Winterians would probably rather have a cruel queen than a king with good intentions, because with a queen they at least have a chance that the magic can be used for them. It doesn’t matter what I would do with magic, because leaders are valued for the wrong things.”

— Sara Raasch