Top 100 Rosamund Hodge Quotes
#1. It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.
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#2. If we all got what we deserved we'd all be dead. And yet somehow God refrains from smiting us. Whatever you ought to have done then, dying won't undo it now.
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#3. I can't love him. I don't. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I've seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.
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#4. She had never, in her whole life, been satisfied with peace.
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#5. Perhaps for him there's a way to love that's sane and happy, that isn't cruel.
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#6. What is this?" demanded the High Priestess from the doorway.
So here she was, back in the Hall of Judgment, facing a circle of priestesses.
Again? said Juliet. You do not have the wisest habits.
At least I haven't died yet, said Runajo.
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#8. I love you," he said. "I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel, and kind, and alive. Nyx Triskelion, will you be my wife?
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#10. You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head
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#11. I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.
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#12. This is the human way, she thought. On the edge of destruction, at the end of all things, we still dance. And hope.
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#13. The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.
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#14. He was my enemy. He was evil. He wasn't even human. I should have been disgusted, but just like the last time, I couldn't help myself any more than water could stop itself running downhill.
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#15. Though mountains melt and oceans burn,
The gifts of love shall still return.
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#16. That's a cold-blooded way to view the world," said Runajo.
"And the way of the Sisters isn't?"
"Blood is hot when you spill it," said Runajo, and Juliet laughed suddenly, her head tilting back.
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#17. He took wives on the orders of his masters. They wanted him to know that he could never be free. They had burnt the holes in the sky, and they let the demons - Children of Typhon - ravage people against his will.
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#18. He was being played with. He was being shown his place. He was being publicly humiliated, but Paris was used to that, and he wasn't going to stop for anything except death or maiming.
Sooner or later, Vai was going to realize that, and then he would have to make a choice.
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#19. 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".
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#20. There are a lot of things I want," I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.
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#22. Just because things were fair didn't make them easy.
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#23. He is a monster, I said. Maybe I m a monster to pity him
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#24. Ghosts are laid to rest when injustices are righted, when their duties are fulfilled. But my mother's duty is to make me happy so long as I live. So there is not rest for her, and no escape for me. I will be happy and happy until it kills me.
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#25. What gods would a demon serve, and what would I be required to offer them?
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#26. 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.
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#27. Most of all, I wanted to forget my mission and lose myself in the embrace of the one person who had ever seen my heart and claimed to love me after.
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#29. For one moment, I felt like a river running down to his ocean.
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#31. Then he whispered - so softly I barely heard it - Please stay.
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#32. So you know what's wrong but you don't know what's right. What use is that? Well, it narrows down the options anyway.
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#33. I tell you, there was nothing she would not do for her brother.
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#35. I had just kissed somebody whose smile had faded, who was watching me now with tranquil eyes and making not the least effort to bridge the little space between our bodies.
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#37. I don't love him. But I take a treacherous delight in him.
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#38. If you desired someone, if he comforted you, if you thought he might leech the poison out of your heart, was that love? Or only desperation?
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#39. Paris?" she said hazily, and that was when Paris whirled to face the wall again, because she was barely clothed, and now that she wasn't on the verge of dying, that was a lot more embarrassing. And improper. And kind of attractive, which he was really trying not to think about right now.
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#41. But you know what you are, and what you deserve. You lie to me but not to yourself. That's why I love you.
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#42. And that was how I ended up with the Gentle Lord in my bed, his head resting in my lap. He looked even younger when he slept - and since his eyes were closed, he looked human. I stroked his hair lightly; it was soft and silky as the fur of our old cat Penelope, and I wondered if he ever purred.
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#43. Every day for the last three years, she had thought she deserved to die. She still didn't want to. She wanted to live with every filthy desperate scrap of her heart
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#44. Speechless?" asked Erec. "Don't be ashamed. I bring all ladies to that state sooner or later."
"Too bad for you," she said, "I'm not a lady.
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#45. I'm the son and heir to the Duke of Sardis. I could walk into that ballroom naked with Alcibiades balanced on my head, and they'd still want to marry me."
"Most likely. But if you try it, I'll horsewhip you on the front steps.
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#46. Study the sky, but do not love it. It is our prison and the symbol of our capture.
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#47. His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.
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#48. Do you think that doing the right thing will always be pretty?
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#50. And perhaps that was where the trouble began. Arcadia was greatly blessed, and sooner or later, every blessing has a price.
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#51. Well, I'm already hoping there could be a dinner where you don't try to stab me with your fork," he said.
"You might need to make your peace with disappointment.
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#52. You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them ever loved you, because none of them ever knew you
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#53. Her dreams were a tangled mess of blood and shuddering trees
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#54. Mademoiselle, you are very kind," he said to Soleil. "But I did not lose my hands for the purpose of making you feel special.
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#55. I'm your wife! I burn for your touch! I thirst for your love!
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#56. There were three of them, all with rapiers, and she had only a dagger. It would have been a wretchedly uneven fight, if she were human.
It was still a wretchedly uneven fight; it was just uneven in her favor.
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#57. 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.
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#58. The Kindly Ones would say it didn't matter. And maybe they were right. We still could have snatched happiness from our tragedy if we had made the right choices, the right wishes. If we had been kinder, braver, purer. If only we had been anything but what we were.
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#59. Lirralei was a girl of storm
winds and thorns, the musk of the wild rose and the flight of the falcon.
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#60. Whatever creature you turn into, whatever form you take, I won't let go of you.
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#62. If one of us had to die, it ought to be the one with poison in her heart.
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#63. Ou always have to choose between the path of needles and the path of pins. When a dress is torn, you know, you can just pin it up, or you can take the time to sew it together. That's what it means. The quick and easy way or the painful way that works.
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#64. But she would have to wait until there were not a hundred people crowded into the room.
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#66. I had been waiting, all my life, for someone undeceived to love me.
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#67. She had won them the sun and the moon, but she had become a monster
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#68. I'm your husband. I can wait as long as I please and still have all of you.
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#69. I killed somebody and I'm not sorry," she said, calmly and very distinctly. "I don't think you want me on your altars unless blasphemy is the custom of your kingdom.
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#70. 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.
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#71. You don't love me," I say.
He sighs ruefully. "Maybe not. I can't help seeing you the way a starving man sees bread.
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#72. I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..
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#73. I don't hate you," I said, and I almost believed it.
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#74. But I can't . . . I can't leave anyone to the darkness.
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#75. But that's what makes it so exciting. Will she kiss me or will she kill me - I think every man secretly wants to play that game
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#76. Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.
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#77. I wiggled, and the key slid down to rest over my stomach. I was fairly sure he wouldn't look that far down.
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#78. I hope you aren't planning to order me back to bed."
"No, you have far too much crockery at your disposal.
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#79. Sounds impossible. I like it. Except it is pretty impossible. You don't happen to remember anything else extremely useful that you've omitted to mention until now?"
"Er," said Paris.
"That was actually a joke," said Vai.
"I'm not good at jokes," said Paris.
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#80. If you'd ever asked, I would have crawled to help you. But you never wanted my help. You only wanted me to be your sweet and smiling sister. So I smiled and smiled, until I thought I would break.
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#81. Ignifex knew me. And loved me And he had never asked me for anything. Even Shade wanted me to die for him.
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#82. For all his love, he let her go. He tried his best to escape her. I had not believed that anyone could love like that.
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#83. I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.
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#84. The crash sliced through my head; it left me gasping and shivering, like all the other times I let my temper out, but the voices stopped.
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#85. The ninth king died in the night. Before his son could be crowned the next morning, the Gentle Lord, the prince of demons, descended upon the castle. In one hour of fire and wrath he killed the prince and rent the castle stone from stone. And then he dictated to us the new terms of our existence.
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#86. He was a fool for trusting me. i was a fool for caring if he got hurt
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#88. But my family I had always had a duty to love, no matter how they had wronged me.
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#89. I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done
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#90. I am going home. You and your lady can stay here and rot. Or have a tea party. I really don't care.
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#91. The moon is alone, and so am I;
My sleeves are wet with tears.
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#92. Don't look at the shadows too long or a demon might look back.
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#93. Down and deeper, lost into silence,
Beneath the light, beyond the sun -
Alone, O my beloved, where have you gone?
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#94. If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?
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#95. I'm here!" I shouted. "Your bride! Congratulations on your marriage!
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#96. Thea is kind and impulsive and very stupid. I'm not sure, sometimes, why she is still alive.
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#97. You touch another woman and I'll cut your hands off, I snapped.
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#98. He grinned at her, and it felt like there was no space or barrier at all between them, like his smile was happening inside her heart. Without meaning to at all, she smiled back.
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#99. Water is born from the death of air, earth from the death of water, fire from the death of earth, air from the death of fire.
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#100. You were sent here to die. You were the one that was not needed, was not wanted, and they sent you here because they knew you would never come back.
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