46 Quotes by Tessa Gratton

Rain is not always a storm. The wind does not always howl. Sometimes death is quite, or love is peaceful. There are little things.

Then, before Rhun charges, I leap from him, running toward the dead. His steps beat after me, and I hold out my hand. Our fingers link. The dead slather gleefully and lick their lips. It is the third night of Samhain, and we run together.

My prince was not the worst, by all I've gathered, but he was bad enough. He was beautiful like stars are beautiful, like angels are suppose to be. Cold, alien, pristine. Being with him was like drinking the most delicate champange all the time, until I didn't care that when he laughed there were teeth all the long way down his throat.

I won’t love anyone so much more than everything else that I lose it all if that person is lost. If it makes your world smaller, it isn’t love.

And Rhun plunges in. He takes Arthur’s face and kisses him. He expects Arthur to jerk away, cry out and hit him, but believe him. Instead Arthur melts nearer with a small cry of relief, kisses Rhun’s jaw as he wraps his arms around him and hugs tightly enough to make them both shake. “Rhun,” he says. “It’s you.

We are as strong as the people who love us.

I know grief, and it is a chasm.

An unused weapon is a danger to its owner, as much as to others.

I will be air, and I will be rain, and I will be dust, and I will be free.