18 quotes found
“Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.”
“What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?”
“It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.”
“the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.”
“—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.”
“Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?”
“My fear for you outweighs my fear of him, he said simply. And I told you, didnt I? If you left, Id follow you.But should you try to leave on your own, know that I will go to the ends of the earth t...”
“Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.”
“Like any girl, she still felt the echoes from earlier eras of repression. She'd been raised by a mother who'd fought hard to get a wage she deserved, to have access to education when she lacked eve...”
“What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not ...”
“Etta saw the way Sophia took a deep breathe, set her shoulders back, and moved with practiced grace on her way out and she understood something about the other girl, truly understood for the first...”
“She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.”
“For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.”
“He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.”
“Dressed as a man, her horse unencumbered by anything but the bare necessities, she had the look of a survivor, a fighter, and he respected the hell our of her for it, especially when she slid the p...”
“Love was selfish, wasn't it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance o...”
“How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don't even have a shovel? Maybe you don't have to move it, Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. Maybe you have to ...”
“My fear for you outweighs my fear of him,” he said simply. “And I told you, didn’t I? If you left, I’d follow you.”But should you try to leave on your own, know that I will go to the ends of the ea...”
