Top 90 Rosamund Hodge Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

53. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

58. “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

59. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

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62. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

68. “I was not born to be saved.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

72. “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

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

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74. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

76. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

79. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

84. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge

87. “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.”

— Rosamund Hodge

88. “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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

90. “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

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

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

— Rosamund Hodge

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

— Rosamund Hodge