Riftborne Quotes

This novel is a love letter to the power of friendship and the bonds that turn even the darkest realities into something extraordinary.

Fia, you’ll never get over your fears if you continue to give into them every time.

What do you see?” he asked quietly. “The backs of my eyelids.

We really needed to learn how to be better adults.

Because nothing screams unification quite like a mark to identify you from the masses.

Beauty could be deceptive, and it often was. Vipers, after all, distract with shimmering scales before going in for the kill.

The dress suits you, though I’d prefer it in black.

For the companions who journey through magical realms together. This novel is a love letter to the power of friendship and the bonds that turn even the darkest realities into something extraordinary.

Flowing copper hair fell in waves over his shoulders, like shimmering curtains over his porcelain skin. Even from my vantage point, his sharp features were prominent. All the way down to the scar that marked his right eye and cheek.

I won’t speak to his reasoning. The man is clearly mad,” I murmured, shifting on the couch.

Fia, may I steal you away for a dance?” The General’s breath tickled my ear.

My vision went white.

The translucent web. I could see it in my mind. I felt it latch onto my spine and begin to braid itself up my vertebrae, sending pulses of energy into the surrounding cartilage. It knotted and twisted until it reached the base of my skull, and white hot light raced through me with a maddening force.

It’s happened again at Stormshire. Looks like we’ll all be deploying tomorrow for the West,” he whispered.

Do you always look this exhausted? I figured you would at least do your part and attempt a good night's rest before today,

A chill ran over my entire body as I made eye contact with the blue-eyed guard from the dam.

I was a mouse in a sea of serpents.

Such a beautiful face wasted on such a rotten personality.

Yes, but I don’t understand it. We don’t remember ours at all. Eron and Jacquelina remember bits, but they don’t talk about it. We know nothing about them,” Osta whimpered. I sighed. “That’s the thing. We have no way of knowing anything about them. It’s best not to let your mind even go there. We’ll never have the answers we want.

Riftdremar was to blame, along with every soul that existed on the small island to the east—the one now destroyed beyond repair, crumbling in decay and the skeletons of the people who once lived there. Our families. 

The General had seen me for what I was–a lost cause.

I blinked back the blur from my eyes. For the first time in my life, I had actually allowed myself to wonder. The tears started to fall.

It’s called arcanite.” “It looks as though it’s alive.

It’s very rare. Some think it’s simply a conductor for essence. Or that it can store it. No one really knows for sure. But things seem to thrive around it.

I don’t think his intentions are good.

The General leaned in closer than ever. I felt his lips graze my ear. “Let go, Fia.

War was a far thought, a solved problem of the past, if our educators were to be believed. It did make one wonder why we needed a military this massive and all-encompassing.

I saw him for exactly what he was, what he had always been: a devastatingly beautiful serpent, just like the symbol that loomed upon every flag in this kingdom

Even if Osta was right and none of it was real, normal people didn’t hallucinate themselves murdering people.

You’re mine,” he growled against my throat.

I know this is going to sound crazy. It’s just this gut feeling I have… but… I think you can trust him

May you live in interesting times,

I found the sleeping arrangements maddeningly awkward. Seeing how the General usually traveled alone

I saw him for exactly what he was

Everyone in the Guard was pure fucking evil. All they did was abuse their power

If Osta was the personification of life

Albeit unintentionally