Oathbound Quotes

“Human beings deny other human beings’ humanity and call that power.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“But here we stand and here we are. A king, a knight...and a prince." "What...shall...we...do?”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“And if I want to burn it all to the ground?” His answer is a quick grin against my lips. “My blade is yours.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Cowardice and bigotry don’t have to have faces. Their actions speak loudly enough.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“I could lose my entire soul…and still never forget you.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Greedy men collect what they cannot understand, and weak men destroy what they cannot control.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Kissing you is like touching the sky, like touching the horizon. God, Bree, it’ s even like touching the—” “The fall,” I whisper. “Not just standing at the edge, but going over. All of it.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Sometimes you need another voice to press itself into you and remind you that you ’re right to say the scary thing, even if that scary thing is absolutely true.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“I knew you could grieve dead people,” I whisper “Guess I didn’t realize you could grieve living people too.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“I will build you into a girl whom no one can destroy. You won’t need a weapon. You’ll become one.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“You aren’t a failure!” I say. He smiles, harsh and slow. “And how would you know that, gorgeous girl? How could you ever understand what failure looks like? What it means to fall?”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“I want you whole.” His next kiss is a promise that leaves me trembling. “I want you entire.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“You crave her, which means you cannot be the one to heal her.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Some oaths, Briana,” Erebus murmurs, “we make to ourselves. And to no one else.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Only a king may teach a king.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“But someone once told me that while we know ourselves best, we don’t always know what we ’re capable of doing or becoming.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“These flowers take faith, Bree. Even when we can't see their progres, even when we forget they're growing, they bloom. And they are worth the wait.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Because,” I murmur, “once you lose everyone…fear loses its advantage.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Hey,” he interrupts, tapping my knee. “Not everyone needs to be Bree. Half the time, I’m not even sure Bree needs to be Bree.” He shakes his head. “This ain’t a Bree Matthews–ass mission. You can’t go in and blow the place up, then apologize later.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“no one dead or alive can control Briana Matthews.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Guilt and shame won’t help me here. They arrest motion, and now is the time to act.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Even when you choose yourself, you turn hope into something tangible for the rest of us. Even when you choose not to fight, you turn the tide. If you ask me, that right there is the soul of a king.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“The ones we love don’t think in those terms. They give us grace when we fall.…” “So that we can rise”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“You’re Bree Matthews, baby. You can do anything.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“The women around me are all in the business of throwing themselves at the wall, again and again, until it breaks—or molds itself in their images. It’s a type of impatient living that I’ve never dared try.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“I don’t need to do anything!” he snarls, stepping forward. “I only need her.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“Six months ago, my mother was still alive and I didn’t know what death looked like. Now I know what it sounds like.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“The Legendborn cycle saves human lives while destroying them in the same breath.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“I just told you that my father is not only evil but one of the world’ s most ancient evils, in service to the being that devoured part of your soul, and all you’ve got is ‘wow’?” He shakes his head. “This generation is doomed, I swear.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound

“And while I have lost my faith in the world…I never lose faith in her.”
― Tracy Deonn, Oathbound