Rosamund Hodge Quotes

I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.

He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. “I wouldn’t love you if you were any weaker, ” he said, and let go of her.

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.

The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.

You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head

I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.

I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.

I don’t hate you, ” I said, and I almost believed it.

But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.

His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.

I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done

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.

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.

There are a lot of things I want, " I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.

If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?

Rachelle choked on a laugh. “You were always stronger.”“You, ” said Amélie, “were always foolish enough to think that mattered.

I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..

Though mountains melt and oceans burn, The gifts of love shall still return.

What they want, of course, isn't what you can give them. What you're selling is the hope you can.

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".

Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.