Top 90 Rosamund Hodge Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

54. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

55. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

58. “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

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

63. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

65. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

68. “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

69. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

71. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

74. “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

75. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

78. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

84. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

91. “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?”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge