Top 90 Rosamund Hodge Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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18. “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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19. “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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20. “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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21. “Sometimes abiding is more important than doing.”

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

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

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

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

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

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28. “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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29. “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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30. “But my family I had always had a duty to love, no matter how they had wronged me.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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39. “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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40. “I was not born to be saved.”

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

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42. “I think sometimes there is no right thing.”

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43. “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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44. “Rachelle wanted to sew the world back to safety, if she must use her own bones for needles.”

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45. “There are a lot of things I want,” I say quietly and deliberately. “But I think I will keep what I have.”

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46. “But that’s what makes it so exciting. Will she kiss me or will she kill me – I think every man secretly wants to play that game.”

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47. “Mademoiselle, you are very kind,” he said to Soleil. “But I did not lose my hands for the purpose of making you feel special.”

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48. “She didn’t know if the ache in her chest was grief or freedom. Maybe they were the same.”

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49. “She had won them the sun and the moon, but she had become a monster.”

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50. “But we’ll pretend we know how to love,” I smiled at him. “And someday we’ll learn.”

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