Top 90 Rosamund Hodge Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”

— Rosamund Hodge

2. “They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense. But now I knew that every mad word was true.”

— Rosamund Hodge

3. “Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.”

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4. “You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them ever loved you, because none of them ever knew you.”

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5. “Demons are mad of shadow. Don’t look at the shadows too long or a demon might look back.”

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6. “He’s a monster,” I said. “Maybe I’m a monster to pity him. But I can’t leave him.”

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7. “One night awaits us all; therefore, beloved, wait for me.”

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8. “If you’d ever asked, I would have crawled to help you. But you never wanted my help. You only wanted me to be your sweet and smiling sister. So I smiled and smiled, until I thought I would break.”

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9. “Her dreams were a tangled mess of blood and shuddering trees.”

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10. “And he smiled the wild, vicious smile that had made me fall in love.”

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11. “You touch another woman and I’ll cut your hands off,” I snapped.”

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12. “Because lovely, innocent girls could not ever hope to fight the Devourer.”

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13. “And perhaps that was where the trouble began. Arcadia was greatly blessed, and sooner or later, every blessing has a price.”

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14. “He was my enemy. He was evil. He wasn’t even human. I should have been disgusted, but just like the last time, I couldn’t help myself any more than water could stop itself running downhill.”

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15. “But my family I had always had a duty to love, no matter how they had wronged me.”

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16. “Ghosts are laid to rest when injustices are righted, when their duties are fulfilled. But my mother’s duty is to make me happy so long as I live. So there is not rest for her, and no escape for me. I will be happy and happy until it kills me.”

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17. “People who want to be loved”, I say, “always do the most idiotic things...”

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18. “Perhaps for him there’s a way to love that’s sane and happy, that isn’t cruel.”

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19. “Everyone who ever bargains with me is convinced that he is righteous. Even the ones who come sad-eyed and guilty – they weep to the gods that they are sinners, but in their hearts they believe their need is so special that it justifies any sin, that they are heroes for losing all their righteousness and paying with their souls.”

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20. “So you know what’s wrong but you don’t know what’s right. What use is that? Well, it narrows down the options anyway.”

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21. “If we all got what we deserved we’d all be dead. And yet somehow God refrains from smiting us. Whatever you ought to have done then, dying won’t undo it now.”

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22. “I don’t love him. But I take a treacherous delight in him.”

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23. “Well, I’m already hoping there could be a dinner where you don’t try to stab me with your fork,” he said. “You might need to make your peace with disappointment.” Maybe.”

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24. “This is the human way, she thought. On the edge of destruction, at the end of all things, we still dance. And hope.”

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25. “I had just kissed somebody whose smile had faded, who was watching me now with tranquil eyes and making not the least effort to bridge the little space between our bodies.”

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26. “Sometimes abiding is more important than doing.”

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27. “The problem with martyrs is that they’re all dead. What do they have to do with us that are simple enough to still be alive? Should we just give up and want to die because death is better than dishonor? But suicide is a sin too so we really are damned if we do and damned if we don’t.”

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28. “In all your life, your only choice is the path of needles or the path of pins.”

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29. “I’m your husband. I can wait as long as I please and still have all of you.”

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30. “From nothing into nothing how swiftly we return.”

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31. “I’m your wife! I burn for your touch! I thirst for your love!”

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32. “If you desired someone, if he comforted you, if you thought he might leech the poison out of your heart, was that love? Or only desperation?”

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33. “The problem with martyrs is that they’re all dead.”

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34. “She had never, in her whole life, been satisfied with peace.”

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35. “Most of all, I wanted to forget my mission and lose myself in the embrace of the one person who had ever seen my heart and claimed to love me after.”

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36. “He grinned at her, and it felt like there was no space or barrier at all between them, like his smile was happening inside her heart. Without meaning to at all, she smiled back.”

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37. “The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.”

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38. “Whatever creature you turn into, whatever form you take, I won’t let go of you.”

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39. “He knew what she was and he was not letting go.”

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40. “What gods would a demon serve, and what would I be required to offer them?”

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41. “Una virgen que a un cuchillo inmaculado se aferra Puede matar la bestia que gobierna la tierra”.”

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42. “Then he whispered – so softly I barely heard it – “Please stay.”

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43. “His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.”

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44. “I’d rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.”

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45. “The ninth king died in the night. Before his son could be crowned the next morning, the Gentle Lord, the prince of demons, descended upon the castle. In one hour of fire and wrath he killed the prince and rent the castle stone from stone. And then he dictated to us the new terms of our existence.”

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46. “But she would have to wait until there were not a hundred people crowded into the room.”

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47. “The better to kill me in my sleep?” “It would be rude to wake you first.”

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48. “Just because things were fair didn’t make them easy.”

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49. “I can’t love him. I don’t. This feeling is not the selfish, grasping need that I’ve seen tear apart my family, writhing through heir hearts like worms through rotten apples.”

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50. “I was not born to be saved.”

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