240 Quotes by Rachel Hartman

Love and guilt are like ham and eggs. So many people enjoy them together, but there’s no rule saying you must have one with the other. They don’t even come from the same animal.

All roads were one, surely, even if their textures differed.Was she as varied, a part of herself as rough and tutted as the Goreddi roads, and some other part as efficient as the Ninysh? She often felt, early in the morning, when the world seemed most malleable, that she contained these potentials, and more.It wasn’t merely that she could be anything, but that she was everything, all at once.

One thing I’ve learned about grief: it’s like a creditor’s bill. You can put off paying, but it eventually falls due, and exacts usurious interest.

Experiencing nothingness had left her feeling unexpectedly full.

That was basic hound logic, learned from Faffy: if you ran, you were prey.

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

It was hard to fool someone who could tell what you were thinking.

We are adrift, and the thinnest breeze may blow us where it will.

I couldn’t work out how to get home. Someone moved the mountains.