Top 90 Rosamund Hodge Quotes (2026 Update)

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

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

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3. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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13. “For all his love, he let her go. He tried his best to escape her. I had not believed that anyone could love like that.”

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

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

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “Though mountains melt and oceans burn, The gifts of love shall still return.”

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

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

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

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

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

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25. “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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26. “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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27. “Sometimes abiding is more important than doing.”

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

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

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

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33. “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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34. “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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35. “We still could have snatched happiness from our tragedy if we had made the right choices, the right wishes. If we had been kinder, braver, purer. If only we had been anything but what we were.”

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36. “You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head.”

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

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

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39. “He took wives on the orders of his masters. They wanted him to know that he could never be free. They had burnt the holes in the sky, and they let the demons – Children of Typhon – ravage people against his will.”

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40. “Though changed I rise again the same.”

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41. “And I was his delight and he was mine.”

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42. “If I’m damned, what’s the point of pretending that I’m not?”

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43. “Add to that six tables of cakes, ices, and punch bowls, a group of seven musicians playing the violin, three hundred candles, and who knew how many courtiers, and the result was a room that made Rachelle feel like she was being punched in the face just by looking at it.”

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

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

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

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47. “Have you seen lamplight shine through dusty air, setting the dust motes on fire?” He waved a hand. “Imagine that, spread across the night sky – but ten thousand motes and ten thousand times brighter, glittering like the eyes of all the gods.”

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48. “The twins in the storyline only makes it have more feels.”

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49. “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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50. “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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