426 Quotes by Shannon Messenger

She’d been kidnapped right after—and then her abilities had broken, and Alden’s sanity collapsed, and Silveny was attacked, and Kenric was murdered, and the Council turned against her, and she was banished along with all of her friends, and the gnomish plague was unleashed, and Keefe ran off, and Lumenaria fell, and so many other devastating and distracting things had happened that Sophie had never stopped to wonder . . .

All he said was, “I believe in you, Sophie Foster,” as he raised his pathfinder up to the silvery glow of the moonlight.And Sandor added, “We all do.

I’d heard your powers were legendary

I know this isn’t going to make any of it better,” Sophie said, holding her sister tighter. “But I’ve done this before. The part where it all feels hopeless, and like it’s never going to come together. And you know what? Somehow, it does. It’s never perfect. But it’s usually better than I’d been fearing.

Prentice is everywhere and nowhere. He can't help you. Though rumour has it, you can help him.

There are a million reasons to keep fighting. But it's probably not going to be easy.

Were are we going? She asked, trying to figure out if they were flying forward or backward or sideways. "Somewhere. Nowhere. Everywhere. It's all the same here. Always now but never then. Always then but never now.

But we’re just kids she thought For the moment yes But we are talking about the future You really think we’ll still need a Black Swan that many years from now Yes I believe we will always need a Black Swan The world has gotten too complicated to leave any one group solely in charge There needs to be a system of checks and balances We do hope to someday work hand in hand with the Council But even if that never happens we should be there to keep them honest

She wasn't going to cry. She was going to fight.