A Promise of Lies Quotes

“I used to think I had only the terrible options I deserved. I was too broken for anything better. Anything more. But now, when I look ahead, I don’t just see options. I see a life. I don’t know what it will be, but I do know one thing.” Fingers splaying over his chest, trusting that I could lean into him, I lifted my chin and held his glowing gaze. “It will be a life lived truly and a life truly lived.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“But regardless of contracts”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“Not exactly as I’d pictured, but… it might be even more beautiful.” “I’m learning that’s what life is like.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“I love you, Kat, but I adore hearing how passionate you are about your work.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“But most of all, I cried for myself. For the fact I finally had a life worth living. And yet I’d lost it.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“Such pretty words. But I suppose you are standing here in my realm, so you must truly believe it. Touching. I’ve seen the world up there, there is nothing worth dying for.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“This was it. Death, with all its permanence. For so long, I’d believed I couldn’t change my circumstances, only survive them. So I’d focused on that one thing. Survival at any cost.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“I didn’t need heroes—I’d saved myself. And now my perfect villain had helped me reclaim the last marks that evil had left.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“I wanted to lie in the sun sated with cake and sex.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“Too soon, he pulled away and pressed his brow to mine. “Stars above, what did I do to deserve you?” I slipped my hands over his and squeezed. “I thought we always said, ‘Fuck deserve.’” He scoffed. “Maybe that’s why we say it. If I only got what I deserved, then I wouldn’t have you. And I’m not noble enough to give you up.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“Here in a fae palace’s hothouse, full of pretty flowers and luminescent plants, with a purple rose that I’d bred, in the arms of the most gorgeous person I’d ever known, it felt silly that I’d once worshipped usefulness. Thank the gods, that was in the past.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“Dying for something important is better than surviving for nothing.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“She isn’t just anointed. She is of us. Can’t you feel it in her magic? Like me. Like you. Like calling to like.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“feelings aren’t silly, right?” I frowned. “Aren’t they? I’m finally home and the first thing I do is cry.” “Is that a reaction to being home? Or is it the response to everything you’ve had to do and live through in the past month?” Eyes burning all over again, I looked up at him. “It’s just… now I’m safe to finally show that response.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“My body is mine. I won’t be defined by what someone else has done to it. Not anymore. This life is mine. I am mine.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“A secret… prinze?” I supposed that was the ungendered version.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“I’d disguised my map as an embroidery design, just in case anyone found it on me.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“I’d once read an old story that included a curse I hadn’t understood in childhood. May you live in interesting times. Now I understood it all too well.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“But I’d had enough of being threatened by men who were twice my size and thought their strength meant they could do and take whatever they wanted.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“But I wasn’t sure how much obedience was left in Katherine Ferrers anymore.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies

“Never blunt your blade.”
― Clare Sager, A Promise of Lies