148 Quotes by Margaret Rogerson

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    Books, too, had hearts, though they were not the same as people's, and a book's heart could be broken: she had seen it happen before. Grimoires that refused to open, their voices gone silent, or whose ink faded and bled across the pages like tears.

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    Are you in love with me?" I blurted out. A terrible silence followed. Rook didn't turn around."Please say something."He rounded on me. "Is that so terrible? You say it as though it's the most awful thing you can imagine. It isn't as though I've done it on purpose. Somehow I've even grown fond of your - your irritating questions, and your short legs, and your accidental attempts to kill me." I recoiled. "That's the worst declaration of love I've ever heard!

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    I was alive in a way I never had been before, in a world that no longer felt stale but instead crackled with breathless promise.

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    But that was the problem with the old me, I was coming to realize. She'd accepted that behaving correctly meant not being happy, because that was the way the world worked. She hadn't asked enough - of life, or of herself.

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    I wondered if my head and heart would ever reconcile, or whether I'd just cursed myself to relive this moment for the rest of my years, half assured I'd made the only choice available to me, half always whispering if only, the whole of me filled with bitter regret.

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    The thought of seeing judgment - or worse, disappointment - on her face when she looked at me next made me want to curl in on myself and never face the world again. I had no way to prove that the love Rook and I felt for each other was real and that we deserved every desperate, foolhardy inch of it, and I was already tired, so tired, of bearing its weight as a failure. A crime.

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    I like girls too, Scrivener.” Amusement danced in Nathaniel’s eyes. “I like both. If you’re going to fantasize about my love life, I insist you do so accurately.

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    I was warned I’d see some strange things in the countryside,” he said, “but I admit, I didn’t expect to find a feral librarian roaming the stacks.”(...)"I didn't expect you to find me, either" she heard herself say.

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    Would you still like to go ice skating?""Yes!" she burst out. "But---" She tried not to glance down at his injured leg. A grin tugged at his mouth. "We saved the world, Scrivener. We'll figure out a way."She relaxed. He was right. They would figure out a way."Even if you have to pull me on a sled," Nathaniel went on."I am not pulling you on a sled!""Why not? I dare say you're strong enough."She sputtered.. "It would get in the papers.""I hope so. I'd want to save a clipping.

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