Girl, Serpent, Thorn QUOTES

2 " His nearness was no longer just a shield now, but a kind of luxury, a sip of heady wine that she would probably never taste again. Was it so wrong to linger? "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn

4 " She had read enough stories to know that the princess and the monster were never the same. She had been alone long enough to know which one she was. "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn

6 " To anyone who has ever felt poisonous or monstrous or bristling with thorns. "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn

8 " There’s something restless growing within you. We’re all very curious to see what happens when it breaks free. "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn

10 " I was always afraid the poison would make me a monster, but what if trying to get rid of it makes me more of a monster than I was before? "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn

12 " I don't think you're small or insignificant," he said. His gaze softened, solemn rather than fierce. "I think you have so much power within you that it scares you, and that you make yourself small on purpose because you don't know what you'll become if a story than you ever stop. "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn

14 " ...for letting her think she was made if shame instead of beauty. "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn

16 " Once hope was gone there was no point in fighting, and so she had no need for anger anymore. "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn

18 " In the dungeon, I used to like making you angry,” Parvaneh said. She reached down to scoop up one of the moths and held it up to her face, brushing its wing against her cheek with a tenderness that only worsened the fluttering in Soraya’s stomach. Parvaneh let the moth fly away and looked Soraya in the eye. “But I think I like making you laugh even more.”
“Why did you like making me angry?” Soraya asked in mock offense.
Parvaneh grinned and swept aside Soraya’s hair, her fingers brushing Soraya’s cheekbone. “To see your veins, of course,” she said. Her hand moved down to trace the full claw mark on Soraya’s collar bone with her fingertips. “I always thought you . . . I thought they were beautiful. "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn

20 " No, it wasn’t that he had killed them that bothered her—it was that he had done it so well. "

― Melissa Bashardoust , Girl, Serpent, Thorn