C.L. Polk > Quotes

“I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“Ain’t this our song?”
Edith smiled at me through her sand-brown curls. “You say that about all the love songs.”
“That’s because they’re ours. Come on; dance with me”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“He laughed, and I caught my breath at the sound. I wished I was funny, just to hear him laugh again.”
― C.L. Polk, Witchmark

“Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got the down payment and then some."
She signed and pulled me close. "We're going to be so happy."
We would be. I'd dust the knickknacks, burn the sausage, wake up next to her every morning. I'd be grateful, even though I knew the end.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“If I can only use my magic when you deem it safe, does that magic belong to me, or you?”
― C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

“It was as good as magic. It was magic. I let it seep from my fingertips when I touched him, and Tristan gripped me tight even as he shuddered. I did it again, again. I’d never touched a lover with magic. I had never been myself, even in those most private moments. Always hiding, never free. Freed, I dragged him down for another kiss.”
― C.L. Polk, Witchmark

“The bedsprings sang and Edith did too, because she was always a bit like music.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“Do you have a form for everything?” “The tyranny of paper.”
― C.L. Polk, Witchmark

“The moon peeped in our windows, but she was pretty good at keeping secrets.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“But I couldn’t tell him that fear surged in me, chilling my hands and stealing my breath. I couldn’t tell him how tiny I was, how insignificant I felt against the immense, whirling power coming to bury us.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong

“Harriman’s was precisely the kind of bookstore Beatrice sought every time she was in a new town: the ones run by people who couldn’t bear to throw books away no matter what was inside the covers, so long as they could be stacked and shelved and housed.”
― C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

“Aeland is not on a moral path. Maybe it had been in the past. But today? You’re right. We need to change direction. We need to dig deep and determine what kind of country we want to be.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong

“Then there will be blood."

"You fear that. Even though the blood will most likely fall from our veins."

"I don't want any blood to fall," I said.

"It's like surgery," Robin said. "When a patient will die without the surgeon's knife, then you need to cut into the body. Blood falls, but the patient is saved."

"And Aeland needs a surgeon," I sat up. My head pounded, but it was a muffled thump, at least. "To cut out the thing that's killing it. That's what you're saying."

"Do you disagree?"

I didn't dare shake my head. "I don't. But—"

"Every patient fears the risks. And only the worst doctors pretend there aren't any. People die in surgery. It's dangerous," Robin said. "But if you just leave it, the patient will die without that intervention.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong

“Centuries of persecution has been a crisis. Decades of incarceration has been a crisis. Now a storm you couldn’t handle pounded at the door, and you’re talking about a crisis.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong

“:The great bargain is complete. You are my ally, and I am yours.”
― C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

“That you are your own person, and love needs to be free, or else it’s just ownership.”
― C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

“They weren’t Greek to me; I could read that.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“We'll drag this country into fairness and justice.”
― C.L. Polk, Soulstar

“We both knew as soon as Edith saw those pictures you took. The script you didn’t recognize? It’s the human adaptation of angelic language. It’s called Enochian.” I tore my eyes off the road to stare at them. “That’s Enochian?”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“I love you. And if I have to choose between you, fully within your destiny, or a son to continue the traditions that depend on keeping you diminished, I choose you.”
― C.L. Polk, The Midnight Bargain

“And what did it answer?" "That the only choice I had, the only responsibility I had, was to honour your pursuit of freedom, to stand next to you as you faced to death; that you are your own person and love needs to be free or else it’s just ownership.”
― C.L. Polk

“You promise?” I asked, the outrage making my voice break. “Pinky swear and everything? How can I trust you’ll come?” Her smile disappeared. My throat squeezed shut. The edges of my vision blackened. I tried to suck down a breath, and a bolt of hot anguish struck my chest. “Don’t question my word, Elena Brandt.” Marlowe said softly. “I don’t like it.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“The spell worked by pairing the principles of contagion and sympathy. My blood activated the luminescent properties of the radium and the living glow of the fungus, connecting it to the blood that had been spilled— You know what? Let’s skip the explanation.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

“Dorothy Naismith.”
― C.L. Polk, Stormsong

“Why, this is Hell, nor am I out of it,” Marlowe murmured. She gave me a wistful smile. “Ah, love. My usual terms. Ten years.”
― C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End