Top 40 Sarah K.L. Wilson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Hope is a torturous thing. It wrenches one from despair just long enough to allow one to take a breath before plunging her back beneath the icy waters. If it wasn’t for those breaths, it would be easy to let ice claim the soul. Easy to let surrender swallow the struggle. But hope – cruel mistress that she is – is not satisfied with so neat an ending. Like a house cat with a tiny prisoner, she wants only to torment the soul again, and again, until it dies from a burst heart.”

— Sarah K.L. Wilson

2. “None can be your rival unless you let them, Wittenbrand. Do you call me rival? Is it not you, then, who has made me so?”

— Sarah K.L. Wilson

3. “Sometimes it’s the ones tempered by fire who are strongest when you really need them.”

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4. “And then, as if they were one person, Savette and Rakturan opened their eyes.”

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5. “Comparisons get you nowhere. They only make you ashamed of what you should be grateful for.”

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6. “It would be so much easier if I could just be a student instead of always a pawn in a bigger game – and I had no illusions. I was no center of the storm. I was no rook or bishop. I was a pawn and nothing more.”

— Sarah K.L. Wilson

7. “Dragons do not count,” the Magika said. And that was the problem, wasn’t it? Because Dragons did count and anyone who thought otherwise was deeply flawed and completely untrustworthy.”

— Sarah K.L. Wilson

8. “I was losing friends too quickly, whether by having them stolen or by having them give up on me. It was a terrible feeling.”

— Sarah K.L. Wilson

9. “It was hard to choose between good and best.”

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10. “I didn’t want to live life as an invalid. I wanted to live it as an adventurer.”

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11. “Foreign princes rarely ask to see Initiates by name. And by ‘rarely’ I mean ’never.”

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12. “You can’t chase after a girl when you have a nation to defend.”

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13. “Imagine being part of a people who thought life was worth less than the convenience of a moment.”

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14. “I’m not going to break. Just because I broke before doesn’t mean that I’m fragile.”

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15. “We were the Colors of our dragons whether we lived or died. There were no other choices for us.”

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16. “Honors, just like difficulties, were to be faced with courage and strength.”

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17. “Don’t look like that. Anything worth doing is worth risking for. Now, let’s get to work.”

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18. “Maybe it’s time you explained yourself, Dark Prince,” I said, crossing my arms over my chest. “If I’m going to keep your secrets then I think it’s time that you shared them with me.”

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19. “Seize life while you still have breath and peace before.”

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20. “His prospects had gone from soaring to plummeting and there was nothing I could do for him to fix the hole that had torn in who he was.”

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21. “My husband is the most evil and terrifying thing you could ever meet. He could kill you with a sewing pin before you could draw your blade.”

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22. “Always, time is our worst enemy, stealing away what is most precious to me.”

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23. “Worry steals joy out of the moment and doesn’t buy you future safety.”

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24. “For in looking at evil, we are more easily tainted by it. In using power, we are more susceptible to its use.”

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25. “The thing about allies is that they never end up being the people you expect. The same is true for enemies. Which makes them hard to distinguish.”

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26. “There was a muffled cry and the sound of furious flapping of feathers, and then a pair of ravens descended carrying a heavy cloth between them. They set it on the desk, screamed, and flew back up into the star-filled sky in a flurry of black feathers. Even the arrival of dinner was a dramatic production here.”

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27. “Are you seeing strange visions, diviner?” he cooed. “They are not real except to you. Calm your heart, let your breath flow free. You are safe with me, pale bird. Do not fly away.” His tone was so gentle that it almost calmed me, too.”

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28. “Perhaps this was how the Wittenbrand expressed affection. ‘You melt my heart. Have a sword’ or some such nonsense.”

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29. “I saw this place differently than the Wittenbrand did. What was normal to them was a wonder to me and that gave me an advantage because since all of this was new to me, I did not overlook any details.”

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30. “If I were being quite honest– which I probably wouldn’t be no matter what the circumstances entailed– he was almost exactly like the fantasy man I’d envisioned falling passionately in love with. The one I was currently trying to mentally murder in my psyche. That one.”

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31. “When the odds are stacked against you, throw something at that stack! If nothing else, it will be fun to watch it topple.”

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32. “Don’t mistake our soft-heartedness for weakness.”

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33. “No man, no matter how pretty or fascinating, was worthy of having me for just a time. I wasn’t a trinket to be enjoyed for an evening and discarded. I was more like a marriage sword, to be worn with honor for all your life.”

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34. “It was for him that I searched in every whisper of speech I heard, in every gentle touch, in every small glimpse of a face. It was for just one more glimmer of him, one more of his words passing like fine silk through the ring of my mind, one more sweetly bitter kiss searing my lips like fresh ginger.”

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35. “It always surprised me that Father– being such a practical man in all other respects– chose my high- spirited, dreamy mother and then this unsuitable horse. It was a weakness of his. And one that made me all the fonder of him.”

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36. “I could have died, you know. He’s not the best shot in all of history, just the best shot there is right now! And how did you know he wouldn’t miss and kill us?”“I guessed,” I said. I hadn’t known. It was a calculated risk. I was the kind of person who took calculated risks because it was sometimes the only way to get ahead. You just had to be sensible about it.”

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37. “I was weak and vulnerable as a hare in the snare. My only protection, a madman and murderer.”

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38. “Had I known, perhaps I would have been more guarded with my words. Perhaps, I would have thrown a rock.”

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39. “We are the story of our choices, our grim failures, our crippled successes. We are the story of our molten passions, our loves and hates, our tears in the silence. We are the story of how others touched or shunned us, of loves returned, revenges enacted. When all flesh and glory melts away and there is nothing left of us, we will be only the story going on to what comes next.”

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40. “The nice thing about being beneath notice was that nothing else was beneath my notice.”

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41. “There. That should get me some answers for once. I needed to be smart about this. I wasn’t used to fires that belched or bodiless heads, but I could still find ways to be sensible in a nonsensical world.”

— Sarah K.L. Wilson