Home > Work > The Hollow Heart (Forgotten Gods, #2)
1 " I breathe out slowly, my hands still pressed against my eyes and cheeks. "I am not like you.""You must admit that you are, in a number of important ways.""I have been with many women.""You are a legend," he agrees. "
― Marie Rutkoski , The Hollow Heart (Forgotten Gods, #2)
2 " I am a practical person. You, on the other hand, are just like Kestrel and Arin. So much drama. Perhaps whatever has gone wrong between you and this girl could be solved with more honesty, and less wounded torment.""Impossible. "
3 " Nirrim could have wondered about the truth of what she had lost for every moment of her little life, but she could not have named it, for it was compassion, and it remains the fate of all humans who lack compassion never to understand that they lack it. "
4 " She smoothed flyaway hair off my brow. Yes, he imprisoned me, but I imprisoned him first. Do not worry, tadpole. He is mine, and I am his. Always. "
5 " Never apologize for who you are or what you needed to do to be yourself. "
6 " what might I have said to Nirrim, if I had ever believed that kind of story could be mine? "
7 " Sid the sly, they call me. As bad as a boy. Only now do I realize that I might not be this way if it hadn't always been clear that there would be no story for me, no tale wrapped like a present that gets to be opened again and again to reveal the kind of love my parents have, the kind that everyone sighs over, because it is forever. The kind that makes a family. Who would I be, how would I have acted, what might I have said to Nirrim, if I had ever believed that kind of story could be mine? "
