240 Quotes by Rachel Hartman

There's nothing ‛just’ about stories. Stories are the most real.

You were naming my life, which is similar but not identical to saving.We name something to make it real, to give it meaning. You can name my life and I might still die. Those aren’t mutually exclusive.

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.

How did you merit so much devotion so quickly?' I asked, making no attempt to keep the sarcasm from my voice.'I show them Heaven', said she, without a trace of irony. 'People are so desperate for light'.

For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by his words, and if I breathed it would stop.He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertiginous moment, made me want to be better than I was.

There's honest work to be done, Johnny," whispered Griss. "The world is full of work, waiting for you.

Dying took commitment. It was easier to go on living incompetently.

You can't walk away without also walking towards.

If you have a personality, you’re a person.