A Touch of Poison Quotes

“At your feet, all rules kneel. I’m no hero, Katherine, but, please, let me be your villain.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Just because something is legal, doesn’t make it right.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“You think peace costs as much as war?” “It isn’t free. It costs whatever is sacrificed to maintain it.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“For the women turning their rage into power. Let's burn it all down.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“He looked at me like I mattered. Like I was important—as vital as air, as sacred as a bargain. Like there was nothing in me that ever warranted shame.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“I want you, body, heart, and soul. I want to worship you as you deserve to be worshipped. Adore you as you deserve to be adored. Love you as you deserve to be loved.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Your anger is a beautiful thing, Katherine. You are allowed to have it, and you’re allowed to show it.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Hmm. Did it serve you to keep quiet?” I had no answer. “Or did your silence just serve others and their comfort?”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“I’d found. When you have nothing left, even a scrap of something is important.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“No. No. I clenched my hands into fists and pulled on that word. No. I seized my anger and breathed life into its embers. Because I was not the woman they and my father had squashed into a mould. I was not quiet and meek and mild. I was fucking furious.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“I bit back a laugh and lengthened my stride, suddenly keen to get back to our rooms. I really had nothing to worry about. Oh, how the world must’ve laughed at that thought,”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“When I ducked to give him a kiss, he grabbed my arm and murmured in my ear, “Be safe, Kat.” “That’s grown increasingly hard since meeting you, but I’ll try.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“The man who’d given so much of himself for others—his queen, his court, me. The man who carried someone else’s traumatic memories and all the guilt that went with them. The man who knelt for no one, but had for me.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“My father told me that who you really are is what you do when no one else is looking.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Her laugh was dismissive, as if everyone did such things. “I was terrified the whole time.” “We only get to be brave when we’re afraid.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Because if that was all real—if what he’d told me was true… Well, I’d had something precious and beautiful, hadn’t I? And I’d lost it.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“The fact there was a vast, vast gulf between what we were supposed to be and what we really were.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“I wanted to live. I wanted to live.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“You’re trying to hold tightly on to your feelings—to yourself. The tighter you squeeze a bird, the quicker it dies.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“My father told me that who you really are is what you do when no one else is looking.” The words unfolded in me together with a deeper truth. “You, Katherine, are only yourself when no one else is looking. The rest of it? It’s a mask you wear to keep yourself safe.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Instead, I’d found people in the books on his shelves—or their facsimiles, at least. Good enough to quiet my mind. They carried me on their adventures, a silent observer sitting on their shoulder, sifting through their thoughts, seeing patterns and experiences I recognised, even though I’d never been in the same situations. They saved me from my loneliness. For a while.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“With each second I acclimatised to the heavy feeling,”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“I was Katherine Fucking Ferrers, and I was going to go and save the man I loved.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Glimmers of light began to twinkle in his scales. Points of darkness speckled hers.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“you can’t shut some things out and let others in. You shut the door and you lose it all.” You can’t choose what you numb. If you’re deadened, you lose the good and the bad. It was like he’d been speaking to Ella.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“I felt at once completely powerful and utterly filthy, like maybe the second of those two things wasn’t bad like I’d been told but actually a secret path to the first one.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“But you can’t choose what you numb. If you’re deadened, you lose the good and the bad. Numbness doesn’t help. It’s just a temporary escape.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“The Morrigan’s sons rule the Underworld, and those are her symbols. Of course it was going to form a connection to that place.” The goddess of death and war. I fought a shudder at the idea of getting caught up with her or her sons.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“Once I’d used up the nearby magic, I reached out with my mind. I grabbed the rocks and their low resonance, the land’s heady hum, the pine trees’ higher, more complex vibrations. Sometimes the power tried to slither away, but I gritted my teeth and yanked it to me. You are mine.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison

“We have an inherent cultural appreciation of beauty, in art and nature. It’s why we favour human artisans—if they can already create beauty, we want to enhance that and see what heights they can achieve.” She made a soft sound, but said nothing. “There’s beauty in stories, music, song, dance, people… in physical love, as well as emotional.”
― Clare Sager, A Touch of Poison