Ice Like Fire Quotes

“The most powerful magic of all is choice.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“No one should be forced to be something they aren't.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“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, Ice Like Fire

“"Horrible things have happened to us, are still happening to us, will happen every day for the rest of our lives, probably. What defines us is not our ability to never let them break us--what defines us is not letting them own us. We are the Thaw, and we will not be defeated by memories or evil men."”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“If stubborness were all that was needed to be a good queen, I'd rule the world.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“Aren't you affected by Simon's magic?"...
"Took you this long to ask me that?"
She clucks her tongue. "You're not the brightest flame in the fire, are you?"
"Don't make me hit you in a library.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“Horrible things have happened to us, are still happening to us, will happen every day for the rest of our lives, probably. What defines us is not our ability to never let them break us— what defines us is not letting them own us.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“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, Ice Like Fire

“He leaves. Just like that. No final good-bye, no last, lingering glance.
Like we never loved each other at all.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“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, Ice Like Fire

“Lay your head upon the snow," he sings, uncertain at first, but with more confidence as he loses himself in the lyrics.
"Lay sorrow in the ice. For all that once was calm, sweet child, will belong to you tonight. Lay your heart upon the snow. Lay your tears in the ice. For all that once was still, sweet child, will belong to you tonight.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“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.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“Loving her was easy, a skill he had picked up methodically until one day he did it without thought.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“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.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“We need to face what we are. All of what we are, especially the parts that hurt.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“That's part of freedom too— getting to dream, and knowing it could happen if I want it to.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“What’s rare is to have a good, strong man, as opposed to a good, weak man. Those are the ones who ruin the world. Men who mean well, but buckle under others’ opinions until their good intentions destroy an untold number of lives.” My”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“He couldn't stand being around her when she had...Theron.
He wasn't king anymore. He wasn't an orphan anymore. He wasn't in Meira's life anymore.
None of this was the freedom he thought he'd wanted.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“LIke we had never loved each other at all.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“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, Ice Like Fire

“The most powerful magic of all is choice...”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“Isn't this a little... morbid?"...
"Morbid?" I mange half a smile. "Or cathartic?"
"Most cathartic things are morbid," he amends. "Healing through melancholy."
I roll my eyes. "Leave it to you to find something poetic about slicing off the heads of snowmen.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“What defines us is not our ability to never let them break us-what defines us is not letting them own us.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“Knowing is a worldwide pursuit.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“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, Ice Like Fire

“It's a weapon we have, and we need all the weapons we can get”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“Mather lifts a white eyebrow. "You don't have to actually yell, if you don't want to. Slightly elevated whispering would be fine.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“That's what makes me the most upset about the world - how magic shoves people into lives they might not want. No one should have to beseech higher people for permission to be who they are, only to find their pleas ignored.
No one should be forced to be something they aren't.”
― Sara Raasch, Ice Like Fire

“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, Ice Like Fire

“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, Ice Like Fire