Quotes from The Bird and the Sword

“I have loved you every moment of every day, and I will love you until I cease to be. Bird, man, or king, I love you, and I will always love you.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“Swallow Daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them 'til they've time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, 'til the hour. You won't speak and you won't tell, you won't call on heav'n or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“You glow, Lark.” His hand climbed back up again and swept over my unbound hair. I swallowed, suddenly close to tears. Then why does no one see me? “I see you,” he said.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“without desire, there is only duty.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“For the word is quick and powerful
Sharper than any two-edged sword
Piercing even to the dividing asunder
Of soul and spirit
Of joints and marrow
It is a discerner of the thoughts
And intents of the heart”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“Suddenly yearning had a flavor. It tasted like a king, a beautiful, frightening, infuriating man who flew into my life and began to free my words.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“I think I will keep you,”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“Every second I am a bird, I long to be a man. For you. For me. For the child I was so desperate to create. Not for Jeru. For us. You said I choose you because you are of use to me. And I did. But know this, Lark. I have loved you every moment of every day, and I will love you until i cease to be. Bird, man, or king, I love you, and I will always love you”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“You don't need wings to fly.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“I have all the power, but you will destroy me.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“The world is alive with words”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“You don't need wings to fly, she chirped.
What do you need, Daughter? I asked softly.
She looked up at me, her big, black eyes alight with knowledge, and she smiled.
Words.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“I didn’t want to be taken care of. I wanted to run away from all the men who sought dominion over me, who thought they could own me, imprison me, use me, cut me.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“Kjell is right. You are a dangerous little bird. But I think I will keep you.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“She was my little lark. The name had entered my mind the moment I laid eyes on her,”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“When I touch you, I cease to be.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“But the voices of fear and discontent are always the loudest...”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“You are easy to overlook. Slim and pale and so quiet. But now that I’ve studied your soft grey eyes and traced the fine bones of your face, now that I’ve kissed your pale pink mouth, I don’t want to look anywhere else. My gaze is continually drawn back to you.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“You chose me because I am of use. But I chose you because I wanted you. All I ever wanted was for you to love me in return. He”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“I missed him with an intensity that made his absence painful and his return a celebration. In the dark or the light, in the great hall or in our bedchamber, he was gruff but gentle, arrogant yet attentive, and he made love with a ferocity and focus that made it impossible not to bend myself to his will, even as I found ways to challenge and defy him.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“I definitely wasn’t cold. I was liquid heat. I was terror and curiosity and denial disguised as indifference.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“The world is alive with words. The animals, the trees, the grass, and the birds hum with their own words. “Life,” they say. “Air,” they breathe. “Heat,” they hum. The birds call “Fly, fly!” and the leaves wave them onward, uncurling as they whisper “grow, grow.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“Words can be terrible when the truth is unwelcome.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“If I didn’t look too closely, I wouldn’t see that Tiras wasn’t there. If I didn’t breathe too deeply, I wouldn’t feel the hollow echo in my empty chest. If I didn’t move too quickly, I wouldn’t reach any painful conclusions. And if I didn’t listen, I wouldn’t hear the silence he always left behind.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“I intend to keep her close by, to keep her next to me at all times. She will drink from my cup and eat from my plate to protect me from your poisons. She will sleep beneath me and hover over me and never leave my side. In fact, I leave in three days for Kilmorda, and she is coming with me. She will ride in front of me, astride my horse, clinging to me as I go into battle, a human shield against those you send against me.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“The words had risen from his skin even when he wasn’t speaking, and I had called them to me, collecting them like falling leaves, pressing them between the heavy pages of my memory so I could keep them.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“Volgar birdmen, hear my cry, Jeru’s burning, you will die. Close your wings and bow your heads, Every living birdman, dead.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

“Go now and do no harm.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from The Bird and the Sword

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