Top 100 Rosamund Hodge Quotes
#1. 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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#2. Whatever creature you turn into, whatever form you take, I won't let go of you.
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#3. 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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#4. I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. If you start wondering how this house works, you'll likely go mad. That could be amusing, I suppose. Especially if it's the kind of madness that causes you to run naked through the hallways. Do feel free to indulge in that anytime.
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#8. 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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#9. Don't worry," I say. "I have no interest in discussing your broken heart.
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#10. I'm your wife! I burn for your touch! I thirst for your love!
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#11. 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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#12. Her dreams were a tangled mess of blood and shuddering trees
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#13. 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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#15. 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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#17. Do you think that doing the right thing will always be pretty?
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#18. His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.
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#20. Study the sky, but do not love it. It is our prison and the symbol of our capture.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. People who want to be loved", I say, "always do the most idiotic things ...
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#25. Have you seen lamplight shine through dusty air, setting the dust motes on fire?" He waved a hand. "Imagine that, spread across the night sky - but ten thousand motes and ten thousand times brighter, glittering like the eyes of all the gods.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.
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#33. 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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#34. What they want, of course, isn't what you can give them. What you're selling is the hope you can.
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#35. But I can't . . . I can't leave anyone to the darkness.
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#36. I don't hate you," I said, and I almost believed it.
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#37. I knew you lived," her mother said after a moment. "Any daughter of mine would be ruthless enough.
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#38. And he smiled the wild, vicious smile that had made me fall in love.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. Someone else should be avenging her. Somebody who wasn't so stupid.
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#44. I'm your husband. I can wait as long as I please and still have all of you.
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#45. She had won them the sun and the moon, but she had become a monster
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#46. I had been waiting, all my life, for someone undeceived to love me.
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#48. But she would have to wait until there were not a hundred people crowded into the room.
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#49. 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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#50. If one of us had to die, it ought to be the one with poison in her heart.
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#51. You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. Though mountains melt and oceans burn,
The gifts of love shall still return.
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#59. Come. I was on my way to the park; I know a quiet spot where you can sit down."
"In public? With a servant?" I protest as he starts to draw me down the street.
"What is the point of being the duke's heir if I can't cause a scandal now and then?
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#60. 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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#61. The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.
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#62. 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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#63. I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.
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#64. Just because things were fair didn't make them easy.
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#66. The better to kill me in my sleep?" "It would be rude to wake you first.
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#67. 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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#69. 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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#70. Perhaps for him there's a way to love that's sane and happy, that isn't cruel.
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#71. She had never, in her whole life, been satisfied with peace.
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#72. 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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#73. Add to that six tables of cakes, ices, and punch bowls, a group of seven musicians playing the violin, three hundred candles, and who knew how many courtiers, and the result was a room that made Rachelle feel like she was being punched in the face just by looking at it.
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#74. I know what it is like to live every day and every hour by the fruits of someone else's wretched bargain. To see people suffer and know that they suffer because I am loved.
I would not do that to the ones I love. Not for anything in the whole wide world.
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#75. 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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#76. For one moment, I felt like a river running down to his ocean.
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#77. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. I don't love him. But I take a treacherous delight in him.
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#83. 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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#85. I tell you, there was nothing she would not do for her brother.
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#86. 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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#87. Then he whispered - so softly I barely heard it - Please stay.
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#89. 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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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. Because lovely, innocent girls could not ever hope to fight the Devourer.
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#94. 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.
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#95. In all your life, your only choice is the path of needles or the path of pins.
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#96. What gods would a demon serve, and what would I be required to offer them?
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#97. 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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#98. He is a monster, I said. Maybe I m a monster to pity him
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#100. But we'll pretend we know how to love," I smiled at him. "And someday we'll learn.
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