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The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2) QUOTES

The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2) QUOTES

1 " The patriarch had grabbed the girls too dark to be visible in the world’s eyes; whose languages fell on deaf ears; whose very homes at the edge of society pushed them too far into the shadows for notice. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

2 " Séverin Montagnet-Alarie knew there was only one difference between monsters and gods. Both inspired fear. Only one inspired worship. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

3 " See how the symbols stretch across all three shields? They represent a god."
Hypnos frowned. "There's a God of lions and knives and wineglasses? That seems incredibly specific."
"This god is Shezmu," said Enrique, rolling his eyes. "He's seldom depicted, perhaps because he's at such odds with himself. On the other hand, he's the lord of perfumes and gracious oils, often considered something of a celebration deity."
"My kind of god," said Hypnos.
"He is also the god of slaughter, blood and dismemberment."
"I amend my original statement," said Hypnos. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

4 " When the devil waged war in the heavens, even angels had to fall. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

5 " You’re a lot braver than most of the people outside,” said Enrique. “None of them could build a bomb with their eyes closed and wander into a metal monster and still want to name it ‘David.’ Trust in yourself, Phoenix. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

6 " When he [Enrique] turned his head, he saw Zofia and Raslan on the left side of his bed, while Laila and Severin stood near the foot.
"Bravery is physically exhausting," he managed.
"You're awake!"cried Laila, hugging him.
"You're alive."
"And your hair remains exceptional," said Ruslan kindly. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

7 " Perhaps,” he said, his voice low. He trailed his hand up her thigh. “All goddesses are just beliefs draped on the scaffolding of ideas. I can’t touch what’s not real.” Séverin looked up at her. His pupils were blown out. “But I can worship it all the same. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

8 " Love does not always wear the face we wish,” she said. “I wish my love had been more beautiful. I wish … I wish we had more time. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

9 " Love did not always wear the face one wished it would.
Sometimes it looked downright monstrous. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

10 " --perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of good. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

11 " I wish my love was more beautiful. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

12 " "You see that, my Zosia?" he had asked. "That is the devil. When a man cannot see a person as a person, then the devil has slipped into him and is peering out of his eyes." "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

13 " What he had done had not looked like love.
But then again, love did not always wear a face of beauty "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

14 " Enrique had brought her a cookie and made her laugh, and it felt like sitting beside a fire in one's own home, knowing exactly where everything was and who would come to the door. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

15 " Then again, the names we are born with can end up meaning so little. The names we give ourselves, well, perhaps that’s the truth of us. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

16 " He wanted someone who would enter a room and look for him first, to behold him as though the secrets of the world lay somewhere in his gaze, to finish his sentences. Someone to share cake with. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

17 " But a shared past didn’t make a future. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

18 " Most myths are just truths covered in cobwebs. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

19 " I’ll perish left to my own devices. Life is cruel, and often without cake. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)

20 " Depending on who you ask, sometimes ghost stories are all that is left of history. History is full of ghosts, because it’s full of myth. All of it woven together depending on who survived to do the telling. "

― Roshani Chokshi , The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves, #2)