Top 160 Margaret Rogerson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Duty unto death.”

— Margaret Rogerson

2. “When one calls upon a demon, one must be prepared for death to follow.”

— Margaret Rogerson

3. “Knowledge always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any sword or spell.”

— Margaret Rogerson

4. “This was not like drawing a sword. It was like commanding an army. Becoming a god.”

— Margaret Rogerson

5. “There was too much beauty in the world for evil to possess any hope of victory.”

— Margaret Rogerson

6. “Not all battles are fought with swords.”

— Margaret Rogerson

7. “For all the girls who found themselves in books.”

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8. “You belong in the library, as much as any book.”

— Margaret Rogerson

9. “You are like a living rose among wax flowers. We may last forever, but you bloom brighter and smell sweeter, and draw blood with your thorns.”

— Margaret Rogerson

10. “No. You surpass us all.” Beside me she looked colorless and frail. “You are like a living rose among wax flowers. We may last forever, but you bloom brighter and smell sweeter, and draw blood with your thorns.”

— Margaret Rogerson

11. “Never forget that knowledge is your greatest weapon. The more knowledge the better, so you can hit the sorcerer over the head with it and give him a concussion. That’s why I chose such a big one.”

— Margaret Rogerson

12. “It’s an honor to fight by your side, Elizabeth, for however long it lasts. You’ve reminded me to live. That’s worth having something to lose.”

— Margaret Rogerson

13. “If you must stare at something for hours on end, I’d prefer it to be me alone.”

— Margaret Rogerson

14. “Sometimes, if you want to save other people, you need to remember to save yourself first.”

— Margaret Rogerson

15. “You’ve reminded me to live. That’s worth having something to lose.”

— Margaret Rogerson

16. “She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.”

— Margaret Rogerson

17. “The thought of seeing judgment – or worse, disappointment – on her face when she looked at me next made me want to curl in on myself and never face the world again. I had no way to prove that the love Rook and I felt for each other was real and that we deserved every desperate, foolhardy inch of it, and I was already tired, so tired, of bearing its weight as a failure. A crime.”

— Margaret Rogerson

18. “One raven for uncertain peril. Six for danger sure to arrive. A dozen for death, if not avoided. The enchantment is sealed.”

— Margaret Rogerson

19. “There is always more than one way to see the world. Those who claim otherwise would have you dwell forever in the dark.”

— Margaret Rogerson

20. “Why, would you prefer to share one? I wouldn’t have expected it of you, Scrivener, but I suppose some species do bite each other as a prelude to courtship.”

— Margaret Rogerson

21. “The stone itself bled the malice of ancient things that had languished in darkness for centuries – consciousnesses that did not slumber, minds that did not dream.”

— Margaret Rogerson

22. “Nathaniel nodded. “If you can believe it, I used to fancy him. Then he went and grew that mustache. Or he murdered a gerbil and attached it to his face. For the life of me, I can’t tell which.”

— Margaret Rogerson

23. “What? I never smell awful. I smell like sandalwood and masculine allure.” He lifted his head to smell himself and gagged. “Never mind.”

— Margaret Rogerson

24. “God, Elizabeth, I’ve been doomed since the moment I watched you smack a fiend off my carriage with a crowbar.”

— Margaret Rogerson

25. “Walking along a blade’s edge was only fun until the blade stopped being a metaphor.”

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26. “Life is like the oil within a lamp. It can be measured, but the pace at which it burns depends on how the dial is turned day by day, how bright and fierce the flame. And there is no predicting whether the lamp might be knocked to the ground and shatter, when it could have blazed on a great while longer. Such is the unpredictability of life.”

— Margaret Rogerson

27. “She wasn’t a wielder of chains; she was a breaker of them. She was the library’s will made flesh.”

— Margaret Rogerson

28. “Good-bye, Scrivener,” he said promptly, without looking at her. “It truly was a pleasure, aside from the time you bit me. Try not to knock over any of the Chancellor’s bookcases.”

— Margaret Rogerson

29. “Isobel, I love you wholly. I love you eternally. I love you so dearly it frightens me. I fear I could not live without you. I could see your face every morning upon waking for a thousand years and still look forward to the next as though it were the first.”

— Margaret Rogerson

30. “Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?”

— Margaret Rogerson

31. “Some days, the memories hung over her like a weight. Each was light enough to bear on its own, but combined, they could make it difficult to even walk up the stairs. And yet, she wouldn’t trade them away for anything. Their existence made this house, this life, a place she had fought for and won. A place where she belonged.”

— Margaret Rogerson

32. “Nathaniel looked at her sidelong. “Scrivener, I know I cut a devilishly handsome figure lying here on the floor all covered in blood – -which I hear some girls find quite appealing, strangely enough, and if you’re one of them I’m not going to judge – but please stop crying. It’s only a flesh wound. I’ll be back to fighting evil any moment now.”

— Margaret Rogerson

33. “Go on,” he said, growing impatient. “I’m not going to turn you into a salamander.” “You can do that?” she whispered. “Truly?” “Of course.” A wicked gleam entered his eyes. “But I only turn girls into salamanders on Tuesdays. Luckily for you, it’s a Wednesday, which is the day I drink a goblet of orphan’s blood for supper.”

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34. “Come on, Scrivener,” he said brightly. “We must go at once. Do you mind if I lean on you?” “Wait,” she protested. “You aren’t supposed to be out of bed.” “Ah. That explains why my legs have stopped working.”

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35. “Elisabeth lit up. “Grimoires,” she breathed, even more delighted than before. Nathaniel’s expression grew odd. “You like this place?” “Of course I do. It has books in it.”

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36. “Now came the moment he will discover that despite all he had done to her, he had failed to break her.”

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37. “First, I learned how to make tea,” he said finally, speaking more to himself than to her. “When humans wish to help, they are forever offering each other tea.”

— Margaret Rogerson

38. “And that made the world no less worth fighting for, because wherever there was darkness, there was also so much light.”

— Margaret Rogerson

39. “I knew you talked to books. I didn’t realize they listened.”

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40. “I don’t know what came over me. Of course I would be happy to join you in a life-endangering act of heroism, Scrivener. You must only say the word.”

— Margaret Rogerson

41. “I like girls too, Scrivener.” Amusement danced in Nathaniel’s eyes. “I like both. If you’re going to fantasize about my love life, I insist you do so accurately.”

— Margaret Rogerson

42. “When terrible things have happened to you, sometimes the promise of something good can be just as frightening.”

— Margaret Rogerson

43. “I quite like eggs,” I replied firmly, well aware that the enchantments he described would all turn strange and sour, even deadly, in the end. Besides, what on earth would I do with men’s hearts? I couldn’t make an omelette out of them.”

— Margaret Rogerson

44. “Books, too, had hearts, though they were not the same as people’s, and a book’s heart could be broken: she had seen it happen before. Grimoires that refused to open, their voices gone silent, or whose ink faded and bled across the pages like tears.”

— Margaret Rogerson

45. “Isobel.” He swept down to his knees and kissed my hand, gazing up at me in devotion. “I love you more than the stars in the sky. I love you more than Lark loves dresses.”

— Margaret Rogerson

46. “Yet no matter what they were doing, everyone in the forest waited with an indrawn breath, waiting for the taste of autumn, the smell of change, the first news of a king and queen unlike any the world had known before.”

— Margaret Rogerson

47. “Perhaps I haven’t seen what you can do,” she said. “But I’ve seen what you choose to do.” She looked up. “Isn’t that more important?”

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48. “Soft and sharp at once, an aching tenderness edged with sorrow, naked proof of a heart already broken.”

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49. “But isn’t absurdity part of being human? We aren’t ageless creatures who watch centuries pass from afar. Our worlds are small, our lives are short, and we can only bleed a little before we fall.”

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50. “I wanted to know the name of the girl who almost murdered me with a bookcase. It seemed wise, in case I ever crossed paths with you again.”

— Margaret Rogerson