283 Quotes by Marie Rutkoski

Her blood felt laced with black powder. How could she have forgotten what it was like to burn on a fuse before him?

She struggled not to show this. Already, that dream on the grass had faded in her memory. It was as if she’d worn it out by thinking too much about it. But in the moment, it had felt so real. Kestrel couldn’t quite believe that it hadn’t been.

No, Arin. Sit down. Other wise you’ll make an ass out of yourself, and that role is mine.

I don’t mind being a moth. I would probably start eating silk if it meant that I could fly.

How could she have forgotten what this was like, to burn on a fuse before him?

She felt far away and horribly grounded at the same time, like her heart had been torn from her body and lost, and she didn’t know whether she was her heart or her body.

It occurred to me that it was a special person, a gentle one, who allowed another to keep her secrets.

He did not want her to know. He did not want her to see. But: Look at me, he found himself thinking furiously at her. Look at me. She lifted her eyes, and did.

Nothing in dreams can hurt you, her father had said – which was another way of saying that life can.