Six Crimson Cranes Quotes

“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

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

“Fear is just a game, Shiori, I reminded myself. You win by playing.”
― 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 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

“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 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

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

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

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

“Now I saw in his eyes the richness of summer soil. His nose looked endearingly ruddy from being in the cold, and his voice was like a favorite song I never tired of hearing. Funny how he’d stolen his way into my heart when I’d been the thief the day we met.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I liked how he said my name. As if the syllables were the first notes to a song he loved to sing.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I must be drunk on moonlight to tell you this…but after I left you at Sparrow Inn, I…I couldn’t stop thinking about you. I didn’t know anything about you, and yet I had never met anyone so determined—or brazen. Not even Megari.” He laughed, then his expression turned serious once more. “Somehow, I knew I would see you again. It was as if I could feel our strands crossing. Yet when you came to Iro, you seemed different. Sadder, more withdrawn. I’d look for you in the kitchen as Pao and I walked around the castle. I wanted to make you smile.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“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

“Find the light that makes your lantern shine, " Mama would say. Now, more than ever, Kiki was that light.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Only rocks considered sitting still a virtue. Demons take me before I called it one of mine.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“And this too, I will overcome”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I could of done a hundred things different, but it was too late now.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“It’s not wandering if I know how to get home.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Don't teach a dragon history, Princess, especially not magic history.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“I took in the smudges of ink and charcoal on his rolled sleeves, the windswept hair neatly gathered at his nape, his dark eyes, somehow brighter every time I saw them. Kiki was right, he wasn’t so much the barbarian I’d pictured.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

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

“Ironic, wasn't it, that I - a girl who always wanted to make her own choices - now wished for nothing more than to surrender to fate?”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“Curiosity was my greatest weakness.”
― 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. But when they fall in love, their strands are tied together at both ends, becoming one.”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes

“What does Channari mean?" I asked when I finally found my voice again.
"It means 'moon-faced girl,'" Raikama said, touching her ridged skin. "Poetic, isn't it? And fitting. Vanna was the sun to my moon”
― Elizabeth Lim, Six Crimson Cranes