Mortal Heart Quotes

“We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“I am sorry. I did not see you. Normally you are lurking in the corners or skulking in the shadows, not standing in plain sight."

"I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“I am beginning to think that love itself is never wrong. It is what love can drive people to do that is the problem.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“If you so much as snicker, I will kill you all.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“For a spawn of the Underworld, you have far too much honor.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“What is it like?"

"What is what like?"

"Death. What is death like?"

"He is quiet and still, and oh, so peaceful. Fear will no longer hold any sway over you, nor will worry or sadness. Can you think of a time when you were especially tired? Perhaps after a long day of travel? Do you remember how lovely it was to climb into your feather bed that night? How grateful your tired limbs were? How welcoming it felt? How delicious to close your eyes and finally rest?"

"Yes."

"It is just like that.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“Even if we are lost or wandering, He will find us—always, He will find us—and try to bring us home.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“Oh no. Do not start leaking. Ismae, come over here and hug her so we can all pretend it never happened and get on with our lives.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“We are the broken and the damned, the midden heap of Mortain's grace and mercy.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“I follow you for twelves leagues, accost you in the dead of night, and you are worried about my penance?"

"You did not accost me; I let you kiss me, make no mistake.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“Beast looks as if he wishes to put his head down on the table and weep. Or perhaps lock Sybella up in her chamber for the next few weeks.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“If Death could grant you a wish, you would use it for someone else? Trade your happiness for someone else's?”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“Don't you see? Your mortal heart shines like a candle flame and I, like one of those hapless black moths you used to leave as an offering, am helpless before its lure.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“It is rarely a lack of love that forces two hearts apart, but other obstacles.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“The abbess may well try and force me to return to the convent, silent and in disgrace, but I will not go back. Not like this. Indeed, I can see no way I can ever return to the convent, for the abbess will not let me return in victory, and I refuse to do so in defeat.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“Just as I am drifting off to sleep, he speak again, so softly I almost cannot be certain it is not a dream.

"I am sorry. You make me ashamed of what we are, of what little we can offer you, and I lashed out at you when what I really wanted was to punish my own dark thoughts.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“And have you never questioned your faith? Never doubted or turned your back on Him?"

"No. I have not.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“Yes. I have see Him, but He is the god of Death, not some knight to be swooned over.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“When one has made as many mistakes as I have, one becomes very familiar with the fullness of God's grace and mercy.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“How do you not know the nature of the hellequin’s hunt? Have you sprouted from the earth wholly formed, like some miraculous cabbage?”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“I have lived now in the real world, with all its mess and turmoil, all its wildness and all its beauty, and I can never unsee what I have seen, I can never unknow what I now know. More importantly, something deep inside me has awakened, and now that I have moved through the world fully aware, it is impossible to let myself be lulled back to sleep.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“It is best if you do not spend all your time wishing you were somewhere else.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“I will teach them how to think for themselves and not simply reflect back to the world what it wishes from them. They will be strong not only of body, but of mind and heart.

And most important, I will teach them how to love, for in the end, that has been the greatest weapon of all.l It has proven stronger even than Death.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“You always hold a piece of yourself back, Annith. For all your love and affection and kindness, there is always a part of yourself that you withhold from others.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“We cannot be held responsible for what our families do, especially when we have no way to control them.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“And then, without any warning at all, he presses his lips against mine.
As his mouth covers my own, I find myself reeling, as if I have been tipped backward and am falling, falling, so that even the stars in the sky are spinning. His lips are warm and soft, the unrelenting pull of his desire for me as strong as the pull of the waves against the sand.
It is not like practicing with Ismae, or even Sybella. It is not like any of the first kisses I have imagined over the years. It is far, far better and more wondrous, and yet terrifying as well, like one of the raging storms that pound against the convent walls in the winter, threatening to breach its defenses. So too does this kiss threaten something deep within me that I cannot even name.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“People fear Him [Death] - wrongly. They see punishment and starkness in Death, yet there is beauty as well.

People are afraid of what they do not understand, and since they have abandoned the old ways, they no longer understand Death and His true place - His true purpose - in the world.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“If there is one thing we hellequin have learned, demoiselle, it is that life is short and should be savored. It is best if you do not spend all your time wishing you were somewhere else.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“Everyone thinks that my goodness comes easily to me, that it hardly counts because I do not struggle with it, but I do.”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart

“-An altogether frivolous and silly name.-

-The child chose it herself. Perhaps an attempt to grasp the very things that others feared her for and remake them as something lovely and mysterious.-”
― Robin LaFevers, Mortal Heart