Dance With The Sword Quotes

“Always, time is our worst enemy, stealing away what is most precious to me.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“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.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“chinks in the armor. There’s always one,” he’d told her, and she’d written it down. “And it’s usually where you don’t expect you’ll find it. It’s usually at the strongest point.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“When Bluebeard sees you on the Sword’s arm, he may well behead you both. Trust me, it’s not as glamorous as I make it look.”

— Grosbeak”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“The nice thing about being beneath notice was that nothing else was beneath my notice.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Perhaps this was how the Wittenbrand expressed affection. ‘You melt my heart. Have a sword’ or some such nonsense.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“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, Dance With The Sword

“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.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“I was uncomfortable around those who were already mad. They made me doubt my own sanity.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Our legs tired and our eyes wore dim from seeing horrors by the time we reached the heart of the palace.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“You’ll live to regret it!” Grosbeak warned. “Or worse yet, you won’t live at all.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“I kept my eyes open as we whirled between displays, watching fire-breathers spout like baby dragons and a series of knife throwers strike targets the size of wine corks hanging from their friend’s ears. And I knew the answer to my question. We were in trouble – we mortals. So much trouble.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“I have only the power to terrorize that you have gifted to me.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“The Arrow says you are practical – that you have the magic of seeing things and knowing their use.”

That was magic?”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“I did not need it rubbed in my face that I was not beautiful, though people seemed to think that bringing it up put me in my place. I knew my place. I did not require reminders and it was not where people thought it was.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“I thought Vireo was supposed to be bringing me somewhere safe. That’s what the Arrow told him to do.”“I thought so, too,” Grosbeak said ominously.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“I was curious about how Bluebeard spoke to mortals when he wasn’t taking them as wife or removing their heads.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Should I trust you, Vireo?” I asked him calmly. In fairytales, the girls never ask that question. Maybe it’s because they know they will be lied to, so why ask at all. Or maybe it’s because they fear the answer will be exactly as they expect. Or maybe because they have other things on their mind like spinning straw into gold before everyone they love perishes. But I have always found you can learn as much from lies as from the truth, so I asked.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“my husband coming up on their heels like a wolf behind geese.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Their painted faces shifted so rapidly from expression to expression that I wondered how they kept them from falling off”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“If I’d been on my own, I’d be dead a thousand times over, but”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Blood to earth, branch to bone, she holds your heart, she holds your home. Within her lies your fecund earth, within your hills, her blood brings birth. Now two are knit and one there be, the roots below the flowering tree.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Your injuries must be checked, and needs attended to as quickly as possible, and then we will leave this haunted cavern – this place that makes my belly roll and my heart lurch – and face our enemies full in the teeth.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“In the tales told by mothers to their children through the ages of my land, there is always a common thread – in every happy ending there are the seeds of the next tragedy and in every deep calamity there is still the possibility to wrench happiness from the clawed fingers of fate.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“My bodiless friend woke with a scream and then blinked several times. “Oh, we’re still here. How disappointing.”

“Where did you think we’d be?” I asked,

“Heaven. Hell. I know not, but not in your lover’s death closet.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“It made me look formidable. It was a statement that I found I enjoyed almost too much.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Well, that’s the Arrow for you. Disgustingly noble at the worst possible moment.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“If they wish me dead, they will have to send better assassins.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Belatedly, I remembered that I didn’t need him. That I was my own woman. That I hadn’t married for love, and I wouldn’t love him even if he wanted me to because he was a villain from a storybook who I’d only allied myself with because the alternative was so much worse.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword

“Sometimes I forgot how bloodthirsty my pet was.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Dance With The Sword