“We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“I am sorry. I did not see you. Normally you are lurking in the corners or skulking in the shadows, not standing in plain sight."
"I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“If you so much as snicker, I will kill you all.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“For a spawn of the Underworld, you have far too much honor.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“Even if we are lost or wandering, He will find us—always, He will find us—and try to bring us home.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“What is it like?"
"What is what like?"
"Death. What is death like?"
"He is quiet and still, and oh, so peaceful. Fear will no longer hold any sway over you, nor will worry or sadness. Can you think of a time when you were especially tired? Perhaps after a long day of travel? Do you remember how lovely it was to climb into your feather bed that night? How grateful your tired limbs were? How welcoming it felt? How delicious to close your eyes and finally rest?"
"Yes."
"It is just like that.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“Oh no. Do not start leaking. Ismae, come over here and hug her so we can all pretend it never happened and get on with our lives.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“I follow you for twelves leagues, accost you in the dead of night, and you are worried about my penance?"
"You did not accost me; I let you kiss me, make no mistake.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“We are the broken and the damned, the midden heap of Mortain's grace and mercy.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“Beast looks as if he wishes to put his head down on the table and weep. Or perhaps lock Sybella up in her chamber for the next few weeks.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“If Death could grant you a wish, you would use it for someone else? Trade your happiness for someone else's?”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“And have you never questioned your faith? Never doubted or turned your back on Him?"
"No. I have not.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“Just as I am drifting off to sleep, he speak again, so softly I almost cannot be certain it is not a dream.
"I am sorry. You make me ashamed of what we are, of what little we can offer you, and I lashed out at you when what I really wanted was to punish my own dark thoughts.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“The abbess may well try and force me to return to the convent, silent and in disgrace, but I will not go back. Not like this. Indeed, I can see no way I can ever return to the convent, for the abbess will not let me return in victory, and I refuse to do so in defeat.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“It is rarely a lack of love that forces two hearts apart, but other obstacles.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“Yes. I have see Him, but He is the god of Death, not some knight to be swooned over.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“Don't you see? Your mortal heart shines like a candle flame and I, like one of those hapless black moths you used to leave as an offering, am helpless before its lure.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“How do you not know the nature of the hellequin’s hunt? Have you sprouted from the earth wholly formed, like some miraculous cabbage?”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“When one has made as many mistakes as I have, one becomes very familiar with the fullness of God's grace and mercy.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“It is best if you do not spend all your time wishing you were somewhere else.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“You always hold a piece of yourself back, Annith. For all your love and affection and kindness, there is always a part of yourself that you withhold from others.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“Impossible things do happen. But only if we make them.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“I have lived now in the real world, with all its mess and turmoil, all its wildness and all its beauty, and I can never unsee what I have seen, I can never unknow what I now know. More importantly, something deep inside me has awakened, and now that I have moved through the world fully aware, it is impossible to let myself be lulled back to sleep.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“And then, without any warning at all, he presses his lips against mine.
As his mouth covers my own, I find myself reeling, as if I have been tipped backward and am falling, falling, so that even the stars in the sky are spinning. His lips are warm and soft, the unrelenting pull of his desire for me as strong as the pull of the waves against the sand.
It is not like practicing with Ismae, or even Sybella. It is not like any of the first kisses I have imagined over the years. It is far, far better and more wondrous, and yet terrifying as well, like one of the raging storms that pound against the convent walls in the winter, threatening to breach its defenses. So too does this kiss threaten something deep within me that I cannot even name.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“He lowers his lips to mine, placing them over my mouth gently, our kiss bearing the weight of a thousand we may never have.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“And there it is. The threat I have lived with my entire life. If I am not good enough, kind enough, thoughtful enough, obedient enough, I will be cast from my home like a stunted fish from a fisherman's net.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“I have always been willful and stubborn. It is one of my greatest sins."
"But is it a sin? If it allows you to survive? Endure? Prevail?”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“Once they leave to see to their other duties, I go to stand before the fire, feeling once again as if I have been completely upended and remade anew, when in truth, I have barely caught my breath from the first time my life shattered before my eyes.
But this- this is different. This is no shattering, but rather some great knitting together of the broken pieces into a stronger whole.
I feel cleansed, not only of sin- but of artifice. I am stripped down to nothing but my raw self. As uncomfortable as it makes me feel, there is freedom in it as well, for there is no place left for others' expectations and desires of me to hide.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“Mortain's was the only love that placed no demands upon me, the only one who loved me for simply being. His love was as unwavering and constant as the sun. It was what gave me the strength to keep going. The faith to keep trying. The hope I needed to persevere. That was him all along- whether I called him Mortain or Balthazaar, my heart knew him, recognized him.”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
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“Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn.
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
“Are you a female dog?"
"What?" Massie asked. "Why?"
"Because you are acting like a real bitch!”
― Lisi Harrison, quote from The Clique
“A human being weighing 70 kilograms contains among other things:
-45 litres of water
-Enough chalk to whiten a chicken pen
-Enough phosphorus for 2,200 matches
-Enough fat to make approximately 70 bars of soap
-Enough iron to make a two inch nail
-Enough carbon for 9,000 pencil points
-A spoonful of magnesium
I weigh more than 70 kilograms.
And I remember a TV series called Cosmos. Carl Sagan would walk around on a set that was meant to look like space, speaking in large numbers. On one of the shows he sat in front of a tank full of all the substances human beings are made of. He stirred the tank with a stick wondering if he would be able to create life.
He didn’t succeed.
”
― Erlend Loe, quote from Naïve. Super
“My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!”
― John Barth, quote from The Sot-Weed Factor
“Don’t kill me,” he sobbed as he lay there. “Oh God, please don’t kill me.”
“If you had let me finish,” Skulduggery said, slightly annoyed, “you would have heard me say, ‘Come out, we’re not
going to hurt you’. Idiot.”
“He probably wouldn’t have said idiot,” Valkyrie told the sobbing man. “We’re trying our best to be nice.”
The man blinked through his tears, and looked up.
“You’re... You’re not going to kill me?”
“No, we’re not,” Valkyrie said gently, “so long as you wipe your nose right now.”
― Derek Landy, quote from Mortal Coil
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