38 quotes found
“Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”
“I dont hate you, I said, and I almost believed it.”
“I don’t hate you,” I said, and I almost believed it.”
“But I cant . . . I cant leave anyone to the darkness.”
“But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.”
“If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?”
“Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.”
“They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.”
“You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could.' I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. 'I would do it again and again....”
“Why is he scared of the dark?"I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. "Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is".”
“What they want, of course, isn't what you can give them. What you're selling is the hope you can.”
“Rachelle choked on a laugh. You were always stronger.You, said Amlie, were always foolish enough to think that mattered.”
“Do you think he would dare half as much for your love as I have?No, she said. He never could. Thats why I love him.You were desperate for me.Desperate. Not happy. For the first time in all the year...”
“Though mountains melt and oceans burn,The gifts of love shall still return.”
“There are a lot of things I want," I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.”
“With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing,how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.”
“I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.”
“I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..”
“I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done”
“His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.”
“She dared to cry? On this day of all days? I was the one who would be married at sunset, and I hadn't let myself cry in five years. There was ice in my lungs and in my heart. I was floating. I was ...”
“Almost immediately, I found the red door into the library. I opened it idly- and the breath stopped in my throat. It was the same room I remembered: the shelves, the lion-footed table, the white ba...”
“I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.”
