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Namesake (Fable, #2) QUOTES

Namesake (Fable, #2) QUOTES

1 " My mother looked at me then, with something in her eyes I’d never seen before. A reverence. As if something marvelous and at the same time harrowing had just happened. She blinked, pulling me between her and Saint, and I burrowed in, their warmth instantly making me feel like a child again. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

2 " I left you there because I have never loved anything in my life like I love you. Not Isolde. Not the trade. Nothing. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

3 " There was no way to undo it. No amount of coin or power could turn time back to that night in Tempest Snare, or the day Isolde showed up, asking for a place on Saint’s crew. It was one long series of tragically beautiful knots that bound us together. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

4 " There are some things that can’t be carved from a person, no matter how far from home they’ve sailed. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

5 " We were salt and sand and sea and storm. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

6 " That I’d loved him with the same fire that I’d hated him. That if anything happened to Saint, a part of me would be taken with him. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

7 " It was one long series of tragically beautiful knots that bound us together. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

8 " Because you and I have cursed ourselves, Fable. We will always have something to lose. I knew it that day in Tempest Snare when I kissed you. I knew it in Dern when I told you that I loved you. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

9 " I didn’t plan to be a father. I didn’t want to be one. But the first time I held you in my hands, you were so small. I had never been so terrified of anything in my life. I feel like I’ve barely slept since the night you were born. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

10 " The answer to that question is always going to be the same. It doesn’t matter what happens.” His hands tightened on me. “You and me.”
The words sounded like vows. But there was grief that bloomed in my chest as he spoke them, like an incantation that gave flesh to bones.
My voice deepened, waiting for his mouth to touch mine.
“How long can you live like that?”
His lips parted and the kiss was deep, drawing the air from the room, and the word was broken in his throat. “Forever. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

11 " When I turned to look at West, that same starlight glinted in his eyes. I found his hand and held it to my cheek, remembering the first time I’d seen him on the docks. The first time I’d seen him smile. The first time I’d seen his darkness and every time he’d seen mine.
We were salt and sand and sea and storm.
We were made in the Narrows. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

12 " Now I was the girl who’d found her own way. And I also had something to lose. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

13 " The first time I’d seen his darkness and every time he’d seen mine. We were salt and sand and sea and storm. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

14 " It was an easy silence. A comfortable one. All the questions I ever wanted to ask him swirled in my head, spinning so fast that I could hardly untangle them from one another. But they never found their way to my tongue. Suddenly, it seemed, I didn't need to ask them. Suddenly, none of it mattered. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

15 " If I had anyone skilled enough to make it, I wouldn’t have commissioned you, Ezra. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

16 " I'm saying that when I helped Holland's daughter escape Bastian, I fell out of her good graces. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

17 " We were salt and sand and sea and storm. We were make in the narrows. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

18 " We were salt and sand and sea and storm. We were made in the narrows. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)

19 " But the first time I held you in my hands, you were so small. I had never been so terrified of anything in my life. I feel like I’ve barely slept since the night you were born. "

― Adrienne Young , Namesake (Fable, #2)