Rachel Hartman Quotes

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

I understood something about myself as well, even if I didn't have the will to examine it just then.

The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards..., " Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.

I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.

Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.

Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.

I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.

Let the one who seeks justice be just.

...emotions fly humans toward art

My companions ate the bear. I found I had no appetite.

There are two sacred causes in this world, ” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.