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> [“If he was wood, he was a flail, and I was grain on the threshing floor. I was a thousand grains, my thoughts blown like chaff. All that was left was the taste of salt.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/if-he-was-wood-he-was-a-flail-and-i-was-grain-on-the-threshing-floor/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

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## More by Sarah Micklem

> [“I awoke in the deepest night to find I had been divided from myself. There lay my body sleeping and dreaming, and I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/i-awoke-in-the-deepest-night-to-find-i-had-been-divided-from-myself/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“The world the gods made is too big for us, so we make ourselves a smaller one.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/the-world-the-gods-made-is-too-big-for-us-so-we-make-ourselves-a/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“He pushed up his visor and came over to me. He put his shield arm around me and pulled me close. This new skin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/he-pushed-up-his-visor-and-came-over-to-me-he-put-his-shield-arm/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“Then the queenmother said, "I am done with weeping." She whistled for the grey wolves that guarded her keep, and they loped at her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/then-the-queenmother-said-i-am-done-with-weeping-she-whistled-for-the/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the wine, did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/the-master-and-mistress-of-the-house-and-the-rest-of-the-blood-even/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“I leaned toward him and whispered, "I'm drowning. Save me." But when I tried to grasp his shoulder my hand passed through him. "I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/i-leaned-toward-him-and-whispered-i-m-drowning-save-me-but-when-i/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“If he was wood, he was a flail, and I was grain on the threshing floor. I was a thousand grains, my thoughts blown…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/if-he-was-wood-he-was-a-flail-and-i-was-grain-on-the-threshing-floor/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“But that was all bravado. Already - how had it come about so quickly - desire had begotten need. A few whispered words (perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/but-that-was-all-bravado-already-how-had-it-come-about-so-quickly/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“But I found signs of their trespass: a burned patch planted with a fistful of grain, a tree felled or stripped of fruit, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/but-i-found-signs-of-their-trespass-a-burned-patch-planted-with-a/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“It's one thing to forbid the worship of a god, and another to command that it be forgotten. One day I found the oldest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/it-s-one-thing-to-forbid-the-worship-of-a-god-and-another-to-command/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“You still haven't said where you come from. Where is your home?" I said, "I am a sheath, so home is wherenever my shade,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/you-still-haven-t-said-where-you-come-from-where-is-your-home-i-said/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“An edge of a sword is made as much from the steel taken away as the steel that is left”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/an-edge-of-a-sword-is-made-as-much-from-the-steel-taken-away-as-the/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“These Fatalists preach that Chance and Peril are merely masks for Fate's workings, nothing in themselves, and moreover that all the gods move at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/these-fatalists-preach-that-chance-and-peril-are-merely-masks-for/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“I knew by the signs it would be a hard winter. The hollies bore a heavy crop of berries and birds stripped them bare.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/i-knew-by-the-signs-it-would-be-a-hard-winter-the-hollies-bore-a/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

> [“I took to the Kingswood the midsummer after the Dame died. I did not swear a vow, but I kept to myself just as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-micklem/i-took-to-the-kingswood-the-midsummer-after-the-dame-died-i-did-not/)

[Sarah Micklem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-micklem/)

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