Top 80 Hannah F. Whitten Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Red spent the time mostly in her room, surrounded by her books, letting the familiar passages be an escape. She was good at escaping.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

52. “Darkness was so much easier than the intricacies of humanity.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

53. “The day already felt so surreal, so difficult to hammer into the borders of the life she knew, that all she felt was annoyance and the distant thrum of dread.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

54. “Strange, what she used to be afraid of.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

55. “You think love is so difficult,’ she murmured. ‘Such a fraught thing. But sometimes, it can be simple, even when everything around it is not.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

56. “People who thought they’d been saved tended to deify the savior.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

57. “Strange and humbling, what loneliness could do.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

58. “Opposites are not always in opposition; the day and night are equals. One isn’t good and the other bad. But one does illuminate things while the other obscures, and that has to mean something too, I think.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

59. “Red thought it was likely that their gods were dead. Her dedication to her path into the forest had nothing to do with belief in Kings or monsters or anything else that might come out of it.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

60. “He would say he didn’t trust Kayu as far as he could throw her, but she was a small woman, so he could probably throw her much farther than his trust would extend.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

61. “She also kept Gabe and Bastian’s identities out of the story. Telling Mari that the Sun Prince of Auverraine and one of the Presque Mort were in her warehouse was sure to fly like a dead bird.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

62. “His scars were rough under her fingers before he pulled away, shooting her a dark, unfathomable look.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

63. “My father is more likely to throw me in the ocean than throw me a ball.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

64. “I mourn the idea of her, maybe. The gap between what a mother is supposed to be and what she was.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

65. “Every shape of affection can maim but a triangle’s formed most like a blade.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

66. “Very rarely can the entirety of fault be held by one person.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

67. “She went to grab her scarlet cloak before remembering it was still in Valleyda. One shaky sigh, that she’d left it there, but a marriage was more than a cloak. As for the other reasons she’d kept it – the claiming of who she was, what she was – she didn’t need a cloak for that anymore, either. She knew it in her bones, she wore it in her eyes instead of on her shoulders.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

68. “Then she saw him.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

69. “Through darkness, light is brightened. Through light, shadows deepen. One may not exist without the other. They must rise together, equals once again, and never be parted.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

70. “I’m jealous that his actions never seem to have consequences, when I’m carrying the consequences of an entire family.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

71. “Heroes and villains and the spaces between, a prism that changed reflections depending on the angle you turned it.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

72. “You had to be a whole person to be worth mourning. She’d never been that to her mother. Never been anything more than a relic.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

73. “But I’ll admit that I’m jealous.” He huffed a rueful laugh. “I’m jealous that his actions never seem to have consequences, when I’m carrying the consequences of an entire family. I’m jealous that it would take a miracle for him to be left alone with nothing, when everything was taken from me in an instant.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

74. “One should always be on their guard when bargaining with once-enemies.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

75. “I don’t think we’re ever ready to take on what our parents leave us.” Eammon studied his knotted hands. “The places left rarely fit.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

76. “Red had nothing like faith, but she wanted that answer like it could be absolution. For her mother. For her.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

77. “She was very familiar with the way people wielded pity like a bayonet, hiding the desire to make sure you knew your place behind false concern.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

78. “To each person is given knowledge according to their station; it is not holy to try to rise above the lot the gods have given you. – The Book of Mortal Law, Tract 90.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

79. “Lore knew loneliness. It covered everything she did, a spiderweb that couldn’t be seen but was impossible to free yourself from. It clung.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

80. “The part of her that would smile as she grabbed a bladed legacy and felt it make her bleed.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

81. “But Red belonged here. The magic that made her taste dirt and turned her veins green made it clear, the magic that could wreak such destruction if she didn’t keep it contained, and she was so tired of being afraid.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

82. “If grace is blasphemous, build me a pyre.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

83. “She seemed like someone who thrived in conditions others thought she should wilt under.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

84. “She was going into the Wilderwood to save everyone she loved from herself.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

85. “Stories of the Wilderwood as it was before the creation of the Shadowlands, when all the magic of the world was locked within it to make a prison for the god-like creatures that had reigned in terror.”

— Hannah F. Whitten

86. “I think my father dislikes almost everything.”

— Hannah F. Whitten