Quotes from The Iron Thorn

“Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“Impossible just means they ain't thought of a name for it yet....”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“I don't care about lasting. I just want right now.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“... I'll be back before I have to meet the Headmaster about me going mad and killing people on my birthday, I swear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“He's no kind of gentleman.
That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces.
I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“I breathed in for a moment, letting his scent of leather and cigarettes and boy calm my ragged breathing.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“...I wondered if I'd ever stop feeling fragile...”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“When a court officer suggested quarantine for Nerissa, she grabbed the man's pen and jammed it into the back of his hand, screaming that he was a Crimson Guard witch come to remove her memories and replace them with bird-song.

They decided to skip quarantine after that.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“Considering it was my father's house, I thought it was very much my beeswax, but I wasn't about to argue with a stranger hiding in a kitchen, pelting me with footwear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“Pain was tertiary. I could feel it later, for any length of time it desired.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“You smell pretty tasty.
Just what every girl wants to hear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“There are seventeen madhouses in the city of Lovecraft. I've visited all of them.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“Hell, Cal. You're a monster that mothers threaten their children with and you're still as touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“I fear, in my dark hours, that it hungers for me and that it is only a matter of time before it eats its full of my sanity.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“It wasn't even a dream, because dreams come from a person's brain and I knew deep down that this one came directly from my madness.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“Now the Night Bridge has seen you, too, and if you turned back, it could keep your soul forever.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“Fine job, cowboy. You work to be this stupid, or is it innate?”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

“We fight and we bleed for this hidden world, and the world eats us alive.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn

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