205 Quotes by Sarah Monette

The indignities visited on his corpse could not touch him; in death he was inviolate. I had no such grace.

Bernatha had a clockwork heart, but that heart did not run.

You must be the only person in the Mirador who hasn’t realized Mildmay would walk on glass knives for you.

You must be the only person in the Mirador who hasn’t realized Mildamy would walk on knives for you.

You must be the only person in the Mirador who hasn’t realized Mildmay would walk on knives for you.

I heard the huff of his breath, as if I had struck him, as if perhaps my words had reached through his self-righteousness.

In the Lower City, eclipses were the worst of ill omens being as they were the special providence of the God of the Obscured Sun.

Don’t worry, darling. I only want you for your mind.

They did not care that this serene harmony was built on blood and death and pain.