283 Quotes by Marie Rutkoski

Say what you want about me, about what happened between us, about the shape of the sun and the color of the grass and any other truths in this world you want to deny. Deny everything until the gods strike you down. But you can’t say that I don’t know you.

Feelings like guilt and anxiety and missing people should have a certain life span.

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.

Kestrel studied her fingers, the way they wove together. She didn’t say Come back safely, and he didn’t say I always have. She said what a Valorian should. “Fight well.

She would never give him her dagger. “I tried so hard to live in your world,” she told him. “Now it’s your turn to live in mine.

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.

You will be lonely, but you’ll become strong.

She’d wanted to put her fear inside a white box and give it to Arin. You, too, she would tell him. I fear for you. I fear for me if I lost you.

Later, Kestrel wished she had spoken then, that no time had been lost. She wished that she’d had the courage that very moment to tell Arin what she’d finally known to be true: that she loved him with the whole of her heart.