The Serpent and the Wolf Quotes

“Dismissing your emotions doesn’t make them disappear, it only gives them reason to rise later without your consent.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“I have learned that home is seldom a place; it is people, the most unexpected of them, that give us roots.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“I am the emperor of Asterya, too. And I’m going to get my wife back.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“Your father underestimated the weapon he built. And through his cruelty, he forced you to play for yourself and yourself alone. But I will play for you, if you will play for me, too.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“The choices of others are not a burden I carry any longer, and neither is their shame.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“He looked at her now in a way no one else had ever looked at her, like all of her sharp edges just softened and glowed. Like to be loved by her was truly enough. And maybe she was destined to lose everything she’d ever loved, maybe it would shatter her into a thousand small pieces, but that single look felt worth breaking for.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“Thrones are as precarious as one’s humanity.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“I have collected a thousand words, and yet I cannot find a single one to tell you what comes alive inside of me when you are near.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“You call it anger, you call it fear, but it is none of those things. What lies inside of you is pain. The kind that burns worlds to the ground.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“The truth was that men could not tell a virgin from a hole in a tree, no matter what lies they told themselves.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“Even warlords were men, after all, and men were almost always their own downfall.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“You want to be missed more than you want to be loved?”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“Much to her dismay, Reid of Mireh slung off his black cloak and draped it around her shoulders. Warmth rushed over her, and she took a small breath.

“I was born on the ice,” she reminded him.

“That doesn’t mean you deserve to be cold.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“Reid of Mireh confused her, and yet he might have been the most transparent person she’d ever known.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“No, my allegiances do not lie with him,” she whispered. A once-unutterable truth. “And if he ever knew I said that, he’d put my head on a pike.” Her neck was bared, her cheeks tearstained. What was one more piece of her soul?”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf

“Dominik had looked upon the world and decided it was his, and Vaasa knew nothing belonged to her at all.”
― Rebecca Robinson, The Serpent and the Wolf