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Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1) QUOTES

Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1) QUOTES

1 " All roads were one, surely, even if their textures differed.
Was she as varied, a part of herself as rough and tutted as the Goreddi roads, and some other part as efficient as the Ninysh? She often felt, early in the morning, when the world seemed most malleable, that she contained these potentials, and more.
It wasn’t merely that she could be anything, but that she was everything, all at once. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

2 " I gave you two choices as a test: there are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

3 " The hated innocent becomes hateful. Goodness withers when it is continuously ground underfoot. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

4 " Maybe the world isn't really different, but I am different, and I am in the world. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

5 " What if opposites could be combined and transcended, paradox embraced, a whole life lived in contradictory case? "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

6 " All your failures and hopes, your suffering and striving, are inconsequential, compared with this. They are nothing.
You are nothing.
It was a relief to be nothing; it felt deep and beautiful and true. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

7 " How was the wolf to blame, if the sheep were roaming free? "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

8 " No penance could be more terrible than this. Her very heart was dead. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

9 " The words bounced off her like a stone skipping over the surface of a lake.
A stone may skip a long way, but it always sinks eventually. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

10 " Only when we have carved you into pieces can you be whole again. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

11 " From some angles, up is toward the earth and down toward the sky, and everything—people, horses, cathedrals, dreams—is suspended over the ceaseless void, barely hanging on. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

12 " You will wander the dark places under the earth, but you will come back with the sun. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

13 " Experiencing nothingness had left her feeling unexpectedly full. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

14 " What’s done cannot be undone. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

15 " One foot in front of the other was all she could manage. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

16 " One thing I’ve learned about grief: it’s like a creditor’s bill. You can put off paying, but it eventually falls due, and exacts usurious interest. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

17 " Swept away was a fortuitous choice of words: it made her mad. She’d been swept away once—she’d let herself be, hoped and desired to be; that’s how it always went in romantic stories.
She’d never be that passive again. It was far, far better to choose, "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

18 " Anyway, it wasn't that flavor of love. She could leave and carry it with her. Time would not put a dent in it, nor distance snuff it out. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

19 " Get on with you, mooning about, wallowing in gooey sentiment. It doesn’t change anything.
“It does, though,” said Tess, a blaze igniting in her heart, a blue flame. “Maybe the world isn’t really different, but I am different, and I am in the world.”
Not just in it. She was it. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)

20 " The darkness was full, fuller than she would ever have guessed, and she found this curiously comforting. "

― Rachel Hartman , Tess of the Road (Tess of the Road, #1)