Top 100 Marie Rutkoski Quotes

#1. Truth was like an exploding star: violent, glitteringly beautiful. Now that I had seen it, felt it, it was impossible to settle for anything less.

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#2. She closed her eyes. Her rabbit heart slowed, curled up in its warren, and seemed to become fully itself: warm fur, soft belly. A thrum of breath in the dark. *

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#3. She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?
He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.
But she wanted to.

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#4. Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.

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#5. She reminded herself bitterly that this was what curiosity had bought her: fifty keystones for a singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, some one who was hers and yet would never be hers.

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#6. Kestrel had bought a life, and loved it, and sold it.

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#7. She entered Roshar's tent. "I need your help." Blinking, he propped himself up on his bed. He said groggily, "And I need a real door. With a lock.

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#8. How could she have forgotten what this was like, to burn on a fuse before him?

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#9. He led her to the dressing room, opened the wardrobe, and riffled through her clothes. He pulled out a black tunic, leggings, and jacket and thrust them at Kestrel.
Coolly she said, "This is a ceremonial fighting uniform. Do you expect me to fight a duel on the docks?

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#10. Her blood felt laced with black powder. How could she have forgotten what it was like to burn on a fuse before him?

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#11. Brother, you are mad," said the queen. "He loves me," Roshar protested. The cub was sleeping huddled against Rosher's leg. "And when it has grown, and is large enough to eat a man?" "Then I'll make Arin take care of him.

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#12. Ultimately, when he held your treasonous letter in his hand and saw how you had lied to him, the choice between me and you was the choice between someone who loves him and someone who didn't.

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#13. I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

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#14. The crowd cleared a path for them. They returned to their horses and mounted.
"See?" Roshar said, "wasn't that fun?"
Arin looked ready to shove the prince off his horse.

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#15. It occured to him that he might have to grow comfortable with happiness, because it might not abandon him this time.

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#16. It's easier to break something than create it.

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#17. You could offer her a seat," Arin said.
"Ah, but I have only two chairs in my tent, little Herrani, and we are three. I suppose she could always sit on your lap.

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#18. Once there was a seamstress who could weave fabric from feeling. She sewed gowns of delight: sheer, sparkling, sleek. She cut cloth out of ambition and ardor, idyll and industry.

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#19. She saw, yet again, that her friend's compliments were just bits of art and artifice. They were paper swans, cunningly folded so that they could float on the air for a few moments. Nothing more.

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#20. Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.

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#21. Kestrel felt Arin's tension, the way he looked at the prince. Arin's worry was plain, his hands still at his sides yet slightly open, as if his friend might shatter and Arin needed to be ready to catch the pieces.

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#22. There was dishonor, she decided, in accepting someone else's idea of honor without question.

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#23. You think you see the truth because people let you believe it. If you accuse a Herrani of a lie, do you think he will dare deny it?

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#24. My soul is yours," he said. "You know that it is.

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#25. There can be second chances. But maybe it's also true that things can never be the same, and that you have to decide whether the second chance lives up to the first.

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#26. It was the kind of knowledge that, once it enters you, seems like it's lived there forever.

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#27. Tell me, little ghost: do you enjoy my company?"
She was surprised. "Yes."
"I enjoy yours, too. I can see why you like me. I'm intelligent, charming - not to mention handsome."
"And skilled at preening. Let's not forget that.

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#28. He felt like that: like a dark, curling force was working through him. It flooded to the tips of his fingers and warmed him. It spread his ribs wide with each breath.

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#29. She had done everything she could. And he didn't even know.

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#30. Which god ruled your nameyear?"
"Sewing."
She squinted, then laughed.
He smiled a little, yet said, "You shouldn't laugh."
She laughed harder.
"Actually, I sew quite well.

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#31. The world went luscious, and slow, and still.

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#32. She had dreams that shamed her in the morning, dreams where Ronan gave her a white powdered cake, yet spoke in Arin's voice. I made this for you, he said. Do you like it?
The powder was so fine that she inhaled its sweetness, but always woke before she could taste.

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#33. It made him wonder which pain was greater: to give up something precious, or to see it taken away.

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#34. How can you interpret the behavior of others when you're a mystery to yourself?

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#35. Everything in war hinges on what you know of your adversary's skills and asset.

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#36. Logic is a game, came the memory of his father's voice. Let's see how you play

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#37. You don't, Kestrel, even though the god of lies loves you.

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#38. Arin kept company with death, but death was not all that lived inside him.
A girl in his heart. In his home.
Waiting for him.

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#39. In the morning, when Roshar saw their faces he rolled his eyes. "I want my tent back," he said. Kestrel laughed. *

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#40. When she saw the opportunity to flee, she would take it. She would bring the hounds of the empire howling down on this city.

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#41. People of the hundred," he said, using an ancient Herrani phrase Arin was surprised he knew, "who leads you?"
So many cried Arin's name that it no longer sounded like his name.

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#42. She looked into the shadowed corners of the room. Talking with him was like having a flower unfold inside her chest, then close up tight. Creep open. Collapse in on itself.

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#43. Looks like someone's suffering the Winner's Curse.

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#44. So you give me nothing."
"When have I ever given you anything?"
Softly, Arin said, "You gave me much, once.

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#45. Sometimes you think you want something," Arin told him, "when in reality you need to let it go.

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#46. In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

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#47. Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well.
Her worst trait. Her best trait.
The desire to come out on top, to set her opponent under her thumb.
A streak of pride. Her mind ringed with hungry rows of foxlike teeth.

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#48. Nothing in dreams can hurt you, her father had said - which was another way of saying that life can.

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#49. You're back," she said.
"I'm leaving again."
"To steal more grain from a captured country estate?"
His smile was perfectly mischievous. "Rebels must eat."
"And I suppose you use my horse in these battles and thefts of yours."
"He's happy to support a good cause.

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#50. Little Arin has missed me. I will not be parted from him."
"Would you consider changing his name?"
"No."
"What if I begged?"
"Not a chance."
"Roshar, the tiger has grown."
"And what a sweet big boy he is.

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#51. He sat on the wide windowsill, spine against the frame. He was aware of feeling both inside and outside. He let himself enjoy the balance of it. It cleared his head.

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#52. The truth can sometimes sound like a lie because we're too afraid to believe it.

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#53. You are important to me, she said, and touched his face. Important. The word swelled and deflated. More than he'd thought. Less than he wanted.

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#54. In his mind, he said, Tell me what you want. And she said, Leave this city. She said, Take me with you.

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#55. Kestrel's cruel calculation appalled her. This was part of what had made her resist the military: the fact that she could make decisions like this, that she did have a mind for strategy, that people could be so easily become pieces in a game she was determined to win ...

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#56. The house burst into being. It

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#57. Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-importance that comes from having decided to be an Academic Who Reads Serious Things.

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#58. Bones must be silent like this, Kestrel thought, when they lay deep in the earth.

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#59. My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it's something I find really, really scary.

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#60. Couldn't tell if the truth looked like a lie, or a lie the truth.

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#61. Arin would trade his heart for a snarled knot of thread if it meant he would never have to see Kestrel again.

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#62. Marry him," Arin said, "but be mine in secret.

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#63. She could've slept then. She wanted to. Sleep was blind, it was deaf, and it would take her away from this room and these men.

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#64. When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

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#65. In war, her father sometimes said, you might live, you might die. But if you panic, death is the only outcome.

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#66. Drink this," she told her friend.
Jess moaned.
"Do it," Kestrel said, "or you'll be sorry."
"What a lovely bedside manner you have," Sarsine said.

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#67. Kestrel let the words echo in her mind. There had been a supple strength to his voice. An unconscious melody. Kestrel wondered if Arin knew how he exposed himself as a singer with every simple, ordinary word. She wondered if he meant to hold her in thrall.

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#68. He didn't smile. He cupped her face with both hands. An emotion tugged at his expression, a dark awe, the kind saved for a wild storm that rends the sky but doesn't ravage your existence, doesn't destroy every thing you love. The one that lets you feel saved.

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#69. It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.

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#70. I have three younger siblings, and used to tell them an awful lot of lies when they were growing up. The best thing about being a writer is that now I can say that my lies were all in the name of literary creativity. Unfortunately, my brothers and sister don't believe me.

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#71. He saw her. She knew that he saw her. But his eyes refused to see her. It was as if she were transparent. Like ice, or glass, or something equally breakable.

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#72. Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, professor, and writer. I used to be big into rock climbing. No more. A lot falls by the wayside.

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#73. Kestrel lifted her gaze. As he met her eyes - an extremely light brown, the lightest shade before brown becomes gold - Arin knew that he was a fool. A thousand times a fool.

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#74. Here." He jerked at Arin's armor and began unbuckling it. "Stop bleeding. Oh, just look at you. Arin, you're a mess.

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#75. Some days are just born bad. You know the type. The kind you want to sweep into your palm like spilled salt and toss over your left shoulder, hoping that if you don't look back nothing worse will happen.

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#76. I know you want her to be safe forever, but it's just not that kind of world.

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#77. The gods used to walk among us.
True, said death.
Why did you leave?
Ah, sweet child, it was your people who left us.

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#78. Maybe love was easy, she thought. Maybe her past wasn't vital as her present, she thought. But then she heard her father say that she'd broken his heart, and she could no longer believe that either thought was true.

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#79. His dark head bowed, became lost in its own shadow.

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#80. A glass of wine in one's hand is rather like a jewel, isn't it, a large, liquid one?

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#81. Every chip of her being slid into place, into the image of a lost world. The boy discovering it. The girl who sees it spark and flare, and understands, now, what she feels. She realizes that she has felt this for a long time.

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#82. Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her,

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#83. I pretty much always wanted to write a series, because I love reading them.

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#84. He knew the law of such things: people in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark.

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#85. He did not want her to know. He did not want her to see. But: Look at me, he found himself thinking furiously at her. Look at me. She lifted her eyes, and did.

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#86. Arin hadn't fallen asleep on the deck of his strangely still ship, yet, it felt as if he'd been dreaming. As if dreams and memories and lies were the same thing.

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#87. The god of lies must love you, you see things so clearly.

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#88. If she had to choose which aspect of the suite she despised most, it would have been a hard call between the lock and the garden, though these days she nursed a particular grudge against the curtains.

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#89. I do admire your love for a gamble." He took her cup and drank from it as well. "I was simply thinking out loud earlier. There's no harm in thinking."
"I have my own thoughts. I am wondering why my father ever respected you.

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#90. Before - for years - she had let her mind close seamlessly, like an egg, around this wrong and other wrongs.

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#91. Arin, why are you so transparent? Whenever you worry, you start fixing things. Draining nasty gunk from a hoof is the least of it. I don't know what's worse, watching you do that or knowing how hard it will always be for you to keep yourself to yourself.

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#92. If you don't wanna be my friend , you'll regret be my enemy !!
the winner's curse

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#93. No, Arin. Sit down. Other wise you'll make an ass out of yourself, and that role is mine.

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#94. Why we can't remember when our mothers carried us inside them: the dark and steady heart, how it was the whole of the world, and no one harmed us, and we harmed no one.

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#95. Where will you sleep?"
"Have no fear. Many a bed would welcome me.

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#96. After ten years of slavery, Arin knew obedience in its many forms. The fear of pain, the gritty promise to oneself of vengeance. Hopelessness. A grinding monotony broken just often enough by the strap or fist.

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#97. Will you come with me?"
"Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.

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#98. Because of meat."
"It's for his tiger," said the cook.
Arin palmed his face, eyes squeezed shut. "Your tiger."
"He's very particular," said Roshar.
"You can't bring the tiger to the banquet.

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#99. How did you ever survive, little slave, with that mouth of yours?

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#100. Go away, little ghost. Go haunt someone else.

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