The Raven Scholar Quotes

“Life is a puzzle with no answer; a game with no rules; a maze with no exit, except death. And still we stumble on through the dark, creating form where there is none, seeing patterns that are not there.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“It is one thing to admit to being feared, or hated. Quite another to admit that you are unloved, and lonely, and that it is taking all your strength to hide it.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“How do you trap a raven? Ask them a question, and they'll trap you for half an hour.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Sorry — must dash, nothing to do”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“We are here, exactly where we should be, at exactly the right moment, because we are the Raven, and we are magnificent.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“She rubbed a hand over her heart. It was like reading a book, she decided. You read the book and the words became scenes, the characters became people and they lived inside you. She had dreamed of Sol, she had read his stories, and it had opened up a space inside her, where he could exist.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Victory, like happiness, is a state we pass through.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“She clomped her way back to the second palace, down the service paths in the dark, and was almost home when she walked through a hedge. This wasn’t intentional—one moment she was not walking through a hedge, and the next moment she was. It was a hedge ambush.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“He hunched his shoulders, tucked his head and whispered, sadly, I understand. I am the Solitary Raven, doomed to be alone and lonely, spurned by all. —I can’t have you shouting in my ear like that. I can’t think straight. I will go to my field and contemplate my own wretchedness. In the rain.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“The Fox’s ears pricked. It liked howevers. There were opportunities to be made from howevers.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“You used me.” “Well—as you always say, Fenn—that’s the curse of being useful.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“No, Neema, petty grudges are an excellent spur to action. Part of my magnificent role as the Solitary Raven is to be a source of constant irritation to the Flock.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Cain had to admit, she looked hot. They both did. Rivenna was like an evil butterfly and Ruko was like a big, sexy wardrobe that might kill you, and these were both very much Cain’s type. Cain had a lot of types.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“There is a lesson for you. Never trust things that smell of gingerbread.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Forty acres of land, and not one single flaw, unless you found perfection itself a flaw, which Cain did.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“There were many things Neema might do, in an emergency. Stealing from a library was not one of them.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“I understand. I am the Solitary Raven, doomed to be alone and lonely, spurned by all.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Each day,” the Scriptures said, “in times of light, in times of shadow, seek for one small pearl of joy and you shall find it.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“This is the fatal flaw of the Dragons. They hoard a thousand treasures, and know them not.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Twenty years had passed since they’d walked through the gates of Anat-ruar together. Fourteen years old. Smiling shyly, and promising to meet again at lunch. People were puzzles, Neema thought. Not fun ones, with prizes. They were puzzles that made no sense, and gave no answer, and broke your heart for no reason.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Nothing mattered more to him in all the world than Ruko’s death. Am I so terrible? He blocked a deadly strike to the throat, but missed the jab that followed—a reeling blow to the temple. His mother clapped.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“People of Orrun,” he called up to the stalls. The crowds fell silent. This was the first time he had addressed them. “I am a warrior, not an executioner,” Ruko said. And left the platform. The square erupted.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“She has learned from her mistakes with Yana and Ruko, and now she makes new ones.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Respect”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Ruko had taken on the attributes of a tiger—grace, poise, power. But the Visitor was a dragon, transformed by fire into something beyond human.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Rivenna was like an evil butterfly and Ruko was like a big, sexy wardrobe that might kill you, and these were both very much Cain’s type. Cain had a lot of types.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Respect, that’s all we demand. Recognition of our magnificence. Offerings. Love. Fear. Trembling awe. Worship. Shiny things. Blood sacrifice, some of us very much enjoy blood sacrifice. Truly, we ask for so little.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“How she won not a perfect peace”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“It was like reading a book, she decided. You read the book and the words became scenes, the characters became people and they lived inside you.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar

“Long ago, Neema had learned to draw out the sting of rejection. Work. Work tirelessly. Immerse yourself. She had fought hard to win her scholarship, and nothing would spoil that. She would find her friends and companions in her books.”
― Antonia Hodgson, The Raven Scholar