Harrowbethain saga Quotes

“It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark.”

“Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.”

“Vampires, contrary to popular belief, don't incinerate when exposed to sunlight. If that were true, there would be a heck of a lot more stories about spontaneous combustion around the world. They are, however, very sensitive to sunlight and their skin cannot take long term exposure without damaging and burning it, which was painful. From Vampire Princess Rising book two of the Winters Saga”

“Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even their own destinies were to them saga and folk-tale rather than a private matter; these were men under a spell, men who had been turned into birds or even more likely into some strange beast, and who bore their magic shapes with the same unflurried equanimity, magnanimity, and dignity that we children had marvelled at the beasts of fairy tale. Did they not suspect, moreover, with the wordless apprehension of animals, that if their magic shapes were to be stripped from them the fairy tale would be at an end and their security gone, too, while real life would begin with all it's problems, perhaps in some town where there was neither nature or mirage, no link with the folk-tale and the past, no ancient path to the far side of the mountains and down to the river gullies and out beyond the grass plains, no landmarks from the Sagas? - Only a restless search for sterile, deadening enjoyment.”

“I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.Kids just have an easier time with words.”

“The waves formed in your heart will make you fall in Love.The waves formed in your mind will make you fall from Life.”

“We will always think about a change of attitude from others. Will we ever think about the same in ourself?”

“Hiding what you feel inside is like running away from what you are.”

“If someone gets irritated with your presence, then move out. You have no space there.”