67 Quotes by Lyndsay Faye

Being brave and being alone aren’t the same thing.

Confident I remain, however, and I find myself hopeful as well – if the world is wide enough for me to find someone, who knows what miracles lurk behind each and every closed door? Charles Thornefield and I are far from perfect; but we are perfect for each other, and perhaps in the end, our chains bind us more closely than anyone who has never been a prisoner can imagine.

Come now, my dear fellow. Expertise is none the less admirable for being of an unsavoury variety.

Flattery, I have found, is a great treat for those born innately selfish.

Besides, Watson,” he added, with a glint of humour in his grey eyes, “you, after all, are a man of the world. We must put your skills to use, for there is no greater tragedy on God’s green earth than that of untapped talent.

A word of advice: Do not ever kill for love, or you will find yourself tethered, staked to the ground when your cleanest instincts require you to run for your life without a backwards glance. Killing for love is one of the most tangled acts you can commit, reader, in an already twisted world.

Knowing that home was hateful to us both, I imagined that her calling me by the word meant I was expedient, or sturdy; but if I could only keep her hand in mine, I knew I would give my four limbs and my heart for the privilege, becoming instead four walls and a roof.

Tim, press your teeth together and keep them that way,′ he growled.

If I must go to hell to find my mother again, so be it: I will be another embodied disaster. But I will be a beautiful disaster.