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“Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He’s not dead, you fools. Legends never die.”
― A.G. Howard, RoseBlood

“Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could." I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. "I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me." I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears.

He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. "That's what makes you my favorite." He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. "Every wicked bit of you.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Don’t look at the shadows too long or a demon might look back.”
― Rosamund Hodge , Cruel Beauty

“If you start wondering how this house works, you'll likely go mad. That could be amusing, I suppose. Especially if it's the kind of madness that causes you to run naked through the hallways. Do feel free to indulge in that anytime.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“And you would know so much about women, locked up in your castle."

"Locked up with eight wives. And sometimes I make house calls for my bargainers. There's many a lovely woman desperate enough to bargain with me."

This idea had never occurred to me before. "You touch another woman and I'll cut your hands off," I snapped.

He looked delighted. "I thought you were afraid of hurting me.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“But you know what you are, and what you deserve. You lie to me but not to yourself. That's why I love you.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Most of all, I wanted to forget my mission and lose myself in the embrace of the one person who had ever seen my heart and claimed to love me after.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“The better to kill me in my sleep?” “It would be rude to wake you first.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“And he smiled the wild, vicious smile that had made me fall in love.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Have you seen lamplight shine through dusty air, setting the dust motes on fire?” He waved a hand. “Imagine that, spread across the night sky—but ten thousand motes and ten thousand times brighter, glittering like the eyes of all the gods.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“And that was how I ended up with the Gentle Lord in my bed, his head resting in my lap. He looked even younger when he slept— and since his eyes were closed, he looked human. I stroked his hair lightly; it was soft and silky as the fur of our old cat Penelope, and I wondered if he ever purred.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“And don’t tell me you’re sorry, because that would make you a very pitiful assassin.”

“I’m not an assassin!” My head snapped up and I saw that he was kneeling right beside me.

“Oh. I’m sorry. That would make you a very pitiful saboteur who carries a knife for nonviolent purposes.” His crimson cat eyes were laughing at me.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Ignifex knew me. And loved me And he had never asked me for anything. Even Shade wanted me to die for him.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“I love you," he said. "I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel, and kind, and alive. Nyx Triskelion, will you be my wife?”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty