240 Quotes by Rachel Hartman

We name something to make it real, to give it meaning.

Thus ended Tess’s short career in herpevangelism.

Sir James waved a gnarled hand. “They’re nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.

Camba had bent her long neck down to Ingar’s level and was muttering in his ear. “Do you feel the breeze on your face?” I heard her say. “That’s yours, and worth feeling. Look at those orange clouds. All the trials of a day may be endured if you know there’s such a sky at the end of it. Some days I told my heart to wait, just wait, because the sunset would teach me again that my pain was nothing compared with the eternal, circling sky.

He chuckled into my hair, enjoying this. I loved him terribly just then, how he puzzled through obscure scholarship and reveled in ideas, never mind that he’d called my mind hell.

Sometimes everyone does their best and things still go wrong.

Are you in love with Prince Lucian?′ screamed my uncle. ‘What were you up to when I arrived? You weren’t going to mate right here in the snow, were you?

Oh, you humans may prefer empathy and mercy, but that’s like intuiting the answer to an equation: you still have to go back and work the problem to be certain you were right. We can come to genuinely moral conclusions by our own paths.

To Tess’s immeasurable disappointment, she woke up.