Top 120 Sara Raasch Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “No matter our dire circumstances, no matter our shared upbringing, no matter the chill his smile sends over my body, he’s still him, and I’m still me, and yes, he needs to have a female heir someday, but with a proper lady, a duchess or a princess – not the girl who spars with him.”

— 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. “Dendera silences me with a hand on my cheek. “You listen to me, Meira Dynam. Yes, you have made mistakes, but I have watched you succumb to this role over the past few months, and that, I believe, is the biggest mistake you have made. The biggest mistake we all made. We’ve all been afraid, and Meira, you look at me. You saved us. You, this beautiful, wild girl before me – you saved us. So be you again, and whoever that is will be exactly what we need.”

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104. “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

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. “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.”

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

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

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

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112. “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

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

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114. “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.”

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115. “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.”

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116. “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.”

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

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118. “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.”

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119. “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

120. “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

121. “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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122. “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.”

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

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

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

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126. “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

127. “How can I love him, I ask, when I’m not even sure I love me yet?”

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128. “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

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

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

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

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

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