56 Quotes by Rosamund Hodge

You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head

The problem with martyrs is that they’re all dead. What do they have to do with us that are simple enough to still be alive? Should we just give up and want to die because death is better than dishonor? But suicide is a sin too so we really are damned if we do and damned if we don't.

He's kissing me and though this is the first time, it feels like recovering a long-forgotten memory. My body seems to say, "Yes, this," and then I'm kissing him back as if I were born to be in his arms. I never realized how tightly guilt and fear had been wound about me until this moment, when they unwind into the air and fly away, leaving me with nothing but this guileless delight.

Study the sky but never love it. It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.

Study the sky but never love it,” Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. “It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.

With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing,how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.

I hope you aren't planning to order me back to bed.""No, you have far too much crockery at your disposal.

But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.

Shade caught my hand, slid his fingers through mine. The touch felt like lightning up my arm.“He’s right about one thing,” he said. “This house has many dangers. I cannot save you from most of them.”I clenched my hand until I felt the bones of his fingers.Then I let go and forced a smile. “I wasn’t born to be saved.