Top 90 Rosamund Hodge Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Though changed I rise again the same.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

53. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

56. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

61. “He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. “I wouldn’t love you if you were any weaker,” he said, and let go of her.”

— Rosamund Hodge

62. “He’s kissing me and though this is the first time, it feels like recovering a long-forgotten memory. My body seems to say, “Yes, this,” and then I’m kissing him back as if I were born to be in his arms. I never realized how tightly guilt and fear had been wound about me until this moment, when they unwind into the air and fly away, leaving me with nothing but this guileless delight.”

— Rosamund Hodge

63. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

64. “And that was how I ended up with the Gentle Lord in my bed, his head resting in my lap. He looked even younger when he slept – and since his eyes were closed, he looked human. I stroked his hair lightly; it was soft and silky as the fur of our old cat Penelope, and I wondered if he ever purred.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

66. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

67. “Do you think that doing the right thing will always be pretty?”

— Rosamund Hodge

68. “I killed somebody and I’m not sorry,” she said, calmly and very distinctly. “I don’t think you want me on your altars unless blasphemy is the custom of your kingdom.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

70. “She looked fragile and beautiful and terribly strong.”

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71. “But you know what you are, and what you deserve. You lie to me but not to yourself. That’s why I love you.”

— Rosamund Hodge

72. “Every day for the last three years, she had thought she deserved to die. She still didn’t want to. She wanted to live with every filthy desperate scrap of her heart.”

— Rosamund Hodge

73. “I’m the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that’s why my family is still alive.”

— Rosamund Hodge

74. “I wiggled, and the key slid down to rest over my stomach. I was fairly sure he wouldn’t look that far down.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

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77. “Study the sky but never love it,” Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. “It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.”

— Rosamund Hodge

78. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

79. “Someone else should be avenging her. Somebody who wasn’t so stupid.”

— Rosamund Hodge

80. “I knew you lived,” her mother said after a moment. “Any daughter of mine would be ruthless enough.”

— Rosamund Hodge

81. “It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the real world.”

— Rosamund Hodge

82. “I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.”

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83. “We are bound in every world, my lady.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

85. “Ignifex knew me. And loved me And he had never asked me for anything. Even Shade wanted me to die for him.”

— Rosamund Hodge

86. “I don’t hate you,” I said, and I almost believed it.”

— Rosamund Hodge

87. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

88. “Don’t worry,” I say. “I have no interest in discussing your broken heart.”

— Rosamund Hodge

89. “Study the sky, but do not love it. It is our prison and the symbol of our capture.”

— Rosamund Hodge

90. “For one moment, I felt like a river running down to his ocean.”

— Rosamund Hodge

91. “I tell you, there was nothing she would not do for her brother.”

— Rosamund Hodge

92. “Lirralei was a girl of storm – winds and thorns, the musk of the wild rose and the flight of the falcon.”

— Rosamund Hodge

93. “What they want, of course, isn’t what you can give them. What you’re selling is the hope you can.”

— Rosamund Hodge