18 quotes found
“Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”
“But I cant . . . I cant leave anyone to the darkness.”
“But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.”
“His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.”
“You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head”
“Though mountains melt and oceans burn,The gifts of love shall still return.”
“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".”
“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”
“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...”
“And you would know so much about women, locked up in your castle.""Locked up with eight wives. And sometimes I make house calls for my bargainers. There's many a lovely woman desperate enough to ba...”
“Study the sky but never love it, Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.”
“I remembered Ignifex's smirk and his confident words: I can wait all I want and still have you. And I thought, Here is one thing he isn't getting. Standing on my toes, I kissed Shade on the lips. ...”
“Study the sky but never love it,” Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. “It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.”
