Sarah Beth Durst Quotes

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

~ Sarah Beth Durst

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.

~ Sarah Beth Durst

Coming home is hard. Ven said.It shouldn't be Daleina said. They love me. I love them. It should be easy.Once you leave, it's never easy again. Or at least it's never the same. You're not the same. You can't expect them to be.She nodded. Sometimes they feel like strangers. And still, I'd die to protect them.

~ Sarah Beth Durst

There's only one way in and one way out of this world.

~ Sarah Beth Durst

Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you.Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you.Don't trust the water, for it will drown you.Don't trust the air, for it will choke you.Don't trust the earth, for it will bury you.Don't trust the trees, for they will rip you,rend you, tear you, kill you dead.

~ Sarah Beth Durst

Last period of the day was new gym class. It was her only class that didn't include Evan, which was a relief. She should be functioning at a peak concentration, but he and his luminous eyes kept distracting her. First opprtunity I have, she thought. I'll bite him.

~ Sarah Beth Durst

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

~ Sarah Beth Durst