283 Quotes by Marie Rutkoski

In his mind, he said, Tell me what you want. And she said, Leave this city. She said, Take me with you.

I realized that wanting is a kind of power even if you don’t get what you want. Wanting illuminates everything you need, and how the world has failed you.

He didn’t smile. He cupped her face with both hands. An emotion tugged at his expression, a dark awe, the kind saved for a wild storm that rends the sky but doesn’t ravage your existence, doesn’t destroy every thing you love. The one that lets you feel saved.

You talk about her as if she’s made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.

It made him wonder which pain was greater: to give up something precious, or to see it taken away.

The general’s daughter? We’d be fools not to. You talk about her as if she’s made of spun glass. Know what I see? Steel.

The house burst into being. It.

It seemed to Kestrel that her life had taken the shape of a folded knife, her heart a blade inside a body of wood.

You are your own best weapon.” Kestrel.