240 Quotes by Rachel Hartman

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

True love was a time-honored way of escaping nearly everything – ogres, witches, bandits, tedious obligations. Her parents wouldn’t like it, but surely even they had to acknowledge that love conquered all.

Dragons aren’t good at metaphor.

I think I’ve heard that ballad,” I said. “It’s beautiful but it ends sadly.

If it can be known, I want to know it.

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.

There was a great brightness and, um... Imagine what it would look like if you could see music, or thought.

First, I gave you two choices as a test: there are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply. Second, and more important: the body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.

The road was possibility, the kind she’d thought her life would never hold again, and Tess herself was motion. Motion had no past, only future. Any direction you walked was forward, and that was as must be.