Michelle Sagara West

“War is a mass of contradictions and carefully acknowledged truths.”

— Michelle Sagara West

“No...if the world demanded their deaths in return for safety, she would have watched it burn.”

— Michelle Sagara West

“And I’ll stop with the lecture now. I don’t like people much—they irritate and annoy me. But I’m fascinated by them anyway.”

— Michelle Sagara West

“Can you hold off on the whole war thing until after I'm dead?”

— Michelle Sagara West

“The end of the world is easy. We'll survive it, or we won't. But if we do survive, the rest of life…

— Michelle Sagara West

“It made no sense, but nothing did at the moment, and at least this was a good crazy.”

— Michelle Sagara West

“Remember that in change, no matter how strange or slight the chance, all hope lies.”

— Michelle Sagara West

“When you have all eternity, the word hurry is relative." "And the guards, being mortal, have less of it, and their version…

— Michelle Sagara West

“It's always easier,' he offered at last, 'when you feel these things yourself; seeing them in other people reveals just how ugly…

— Michelle Sagara West

“There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Erin!” “Hmmm?” “I’m talking to you!” “At me.” She looped the sword around her hips and fastened the belt. “To me is…

— Michelle Sagara West

“If there were no darkness, no Dark Heart, we—none of us—would exist. Try to see this when you walk in darkness. Try…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered. "What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail." "We…

— Michelle Sagara West

“I'm sworn to uphold his laws. Saying that you killed someone because they annoyed you isn't codified as acceptable, by those laws,…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Kill me now." "Nonsense. Dead, you will provide no relief from the interminable boredom." Everyone needed a purpose in life. Kaylin, however,…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Teela turned to Severn. "I'm having trouble remembering why I haven't strangled her yet." Severn shrugged. "I have that problem myself some…

— Michelle Sagara West

“He walked into the shadows of his rooms; walked into the darkness that no light penetrated. And there, under a halo of…

— Michelle Sagara West

“It didn't matter. If she was to have any hope of saving Bellusdeo and Maggaron now, she needed to finish what she…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Manners,[...] are severely underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" "Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be…

— Michelle Sagara West

“But this road, this road that I have walked, you, too, must walk, Sarillorn or no.” “What road, Lady?” “The road between…

— Michelle Sagara West

“What would this have been, if it had more power to give?" "This may come as a surprise to you," he replied…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Chase stretched. "I'll give you the week." And he held up his pinky. Eric grimaced. He HATED this part. "Shake on it,…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Just what is going on here?” Darin would have had a hard time imagining the plump, friendly woman he knew so well…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Bellusdeo laughed. It was, for a moment, the only sound in the quiet of the fief’s night, and it was warmer and…

— Michelle Sagara West

“On the other hand, the last week had pretty much been one waking nightmare after another; if this kept up, her dreams…

— Michelle Sagara West

“At the very least, if I have not - yet- chosen to end your life, I refuse to allow any of my…

— Michelle Sagara West

“If the Light and the Dark were so absolute, why couldn’t they give her absolute answers? Why did everything have to be…

— Michelle Sagara West

“What did she say?' 'She made her displeasure with his existence clear.' 'That's it?' 'She made some claims about how she was…

— Michelle Sagara West

“She had managed to go almost three weeks without being late. Admittedly on two of those days she'd perambulated around the office…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Stay," he said abruptly. "Stay, feed me. Read to me, if you like. Do not talk to me of death. Do not…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to…

— Michelle Sagara West

“She wanted to die. She wanted to die. Because then it would be over. All the loss, all the grief, all the…

— Michelle Sagara West

“Would it trouble you if I remained?” “No,” she replied, around a mouthful of chicken. He took his accustomed seat to her…

— Michelle Sagara West