283 Quotes by Marie Rutkoski

You don’t want me to be sad.”“Never sad. Not you.” She kissed me. I tasted her mouth, sweet from the bird shell, and as I kissed her I yearned for more.

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.

When you're a stranger to people you care about, you become a stranger to yourself.

I like to wear a man’s clothes and I like that it startles people, and then even if I hate dresses I enjoy wearing one to show you that when you thought I was one thing and changed your mind you must now change it again. I like disappearing and showing up when I am least expected. I like pretending. Sometimes I forget myself, and fall for my own game.

Now I'm getting sad, just thinking about how it would feel to be parted from my sweet self. Lucky me: I will always have my own company.

Quiconque se tient dans un endroit baigné de lumière ne peut voir ce qui se passe dans les ténèbres.

Isn't that... isn't that what friends do? They change our perspective on the world. Part of why we care about them is because we love that feeling. The feeling of being changed.

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

She thought of the hawk, which must have winged its way to her father by now. SHe imagined it slewing aruond trees, dropping down. Talons closing around his upraised fist. Her father unrolling the coded message. The trap she'd set for him. Walk into it , she willed. You have a mind for strategy , he'd said once.Come see, then.See what I can do to you. See what you have done to me.