Elizabeth Lim > Quotes

“Seize the wind," I whispered. "Don't become the kite that never flies.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“Pain doesn’t get easier. You just have to get stronger.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Find the light that makes your lantern shine,” she used to say. “Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Fear is just a game, Shiori, I reminded myself. You win by playing.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I would tell you stories from dawn to dusk if it meant filling your eyes with happiness.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“If fate is a bunch of strings, then I'll carry scissors. My choices are my own. I'll make them as I please.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Food feeds the belly, thoughts feed the mind, but love is what feeds the heart.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I will stay by your side until the fire in the sun grows cold and the light of the moon is no more. Until time blots out the stars.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Unravel the Dusk

“I would not have you be alone, Lina, not in your joys or your sorrows. I would wish your strand knotted to mine, always.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Above, the stars faded behind the misty sky, and the sun fanned its light upon us. We melted into each other until the dawn slid into dusk, and the sun paled into the moon, and the stars, once lost, became found again.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“Learn from my mistakes, [...] and learn from my joys. Surround yourself with those who'll love you always, through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone's lantern shine.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“You are my oath now, Maia Tamarin. And you'll never be free of me.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“I'd battled ghosts and touched the stars. I'd climbed a mountain to the moon and conquered the fury of the sun.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“All legends have a spark of truth. Sometimes more than a spark.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“Your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“I knew then that we were like two pieces of cloth, sewn together for life. Our stitches couldn't be undone. I wouldn't let them.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“You are my daughter, not of my blood, but of my heart.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“To this day, cranes carry the strands of our fate. They say that each time two people’s paths cross, so do their strands. When they become important to one another or make a promise to one another, a knot is tied, connecting them.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I know that for every dawn, dusk must unravel its darkness.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Unravel the Dusk

“It was a tale of a boy, too. A boy who could fly but not swim. A boy with the powers of the gods but the shackles of a slave. A boy who loved me. It was a tale still being written.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“Be the light that makes someone's lantern shine.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“A reputation is all it takes to spread fear. And fear is a mighty weapon.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Sometimes finding the way is tricky, but you always do. As long as you don't give up.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“I want you to know that some journeys have ends, but not this one. This one will change you. Irrevocably." "Don't all journeys change you?" "It isn't the same." He leaned forward. "I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars." "What did you find?" His voice turned lethally soft. "That it's just the beginning.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“But a promise is a promise, not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care. It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“We are bound, remember? If you have no heart, I will give you half of mine. If you have no spirit, I will bind yours to mine.”
― Elizabeth Lim, The Dragon's Promise

“No matter where life takes you, you will be like those stars - connected by the light you shine together.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“But I would give up the sun and moon and stars if it meant saving him.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Spin the Dawn

“Find the light that makes your lantern shine," she used to say. "Hold on to it, even when the dark surrounds you. Not even the strongest wind will blow out the flame”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I am Fa Mulan, a girl who would sacrifice her life for her family and for China. I am a girl who journeyed into the Underworld to save her friend from dying. I am a girl who has fought battle after battle to finally recognize herself in the mirror. And now I do.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Reflection