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Sarah Micklem

(1955) Novelist

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Sarah Micklem is a novelist.

Quick Facts About Sarah Micklem

Born: January 1, 1955
Profession: Novelist

About Sarah Micklem

[Wikidata] American writer... | [Wikipedia] Sarah Micklem is the author of the best-selling fantasy novel, Firethorn. She began writing after many years as a graphic designer and spent fourteen years working for Time Warner, designing for a children's magazine in New York City. She wrote Firethorn while working as the art director for the mag

Quotes 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…

Dreams

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“The world the gods made is too big for us, so we make ourselves a smaller one.”

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“He pushed up his visor and came over to me. He put his shield arm around me and pulled me close. This…

Armor

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“Then the queenmother said, "I am done with weeping." She whistled for the grey wolves that guarded her keep, and they loped…

Kingdoms

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“The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the…

Deer

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“I leaned toward him and whispered, "I'm drowning. Save me." But when I tried to grasp his shoulder my hand passed through…

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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…

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“But that was all bravado. Already - how had it come about so quickly - desire had begotten need. A few whispered…

Desire

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“But I found signs of their trespass: a burned patch planted with a fistful of grain, a tree felled or stripped of…

Gods

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“It's one thing to forbid the worship of a god, and another to command that it be forgotten. One day I found…

Corn-dollies

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“You still haven't said where you come from. Where is your home?" I said, "I am a sheath, so home is wherenever…

Home

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“An edge of a sword is made as much from the steel taken away as the steel that is left”

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“These Fatalists preach that Chance and Peril are merely masks for Fate's workings, nothing in themselves, and moreover that all the gods…

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“I knew by the signs it would be a hard winter. The hollies bore a heavy crop of berries and birds stripped…

Autumn

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“I took to the Kingswood the midsummer after the Dame died. I did not swear a vow, but I kept to myself…

Forest

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