240 Quotes by Rachel Hartman

Ah, I could last a long time on those smiles. I would sow and reap them like wheat.

I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...," Maurizio said, shrugging, clearly implying that [they] were cowards.

The beauty of the place moved me; I loved how the clean air felt in my lungs, how far I was from everything I had ever known. People I'd hurt, people I'd failed, people who thought me a monster. Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.

Peaches and Cheese”:The vagabond sun winks down through the trees,While lilacs, like memories, waft on the breeze,My friend, I was born for days such as these,To inhale perfume,And cut through the gloom,And feast like a king upon peaches and cheese!I’ll travel this wide world and go where I please,Can’t stop my wand’ring, it’s like a disease.My only regret as I cross the high seas:What I leave behind,Though I hope to find,My own golden city of peaches and cheese!

So if the Infernum is an empy interior, what's Heaven in their conception?" I asked, nudging him."A second inside-out house, inside, or rather 'outside' the first," he said. "If you cross its threshold, you realize our world, for all its wonder, has been but a shadow, another kind of emptiness. Heaven is more than this

Invisible factors in my life would inevitably lead to my downfall. I felt I had known this all along. There was no escape.

We shall have long meetings where Kiggs agonizes and Glisselda teases him. That's the pattern so far.

But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?""I'm not human," he said. "I don't require a reason to live. Living is my default condition." I couldn't help it; I laughed, and teas weleld in my eyes. That answer was quintessentially Orma, distilled to his elemental Orma-ness.

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.