Rooted Quotes

“Women may be menaced anywhere, I fear.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“So her new form does not save her?” “Indeed not.” “Then you are no Daphne.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“She needed him to transform her fantasies into prophecies.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“when she sighed, it was the last breath of the woman she was before.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“if a man is lucky enough to have a wife whom he treasures, he would be a fool if he did not daily remind her of it.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“now she had the space and the salary, she began collecting small luxuries.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“She put on an expression of shock and dismay to hide her shameful apathy.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Including yourself.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“yeh great noddy.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“You are a liar and a knave and I never liked you overmuch.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“akin”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Do you command it?” His smile faded. “Of course not.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“his”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Her fingers fluttered over her instrument with the confidence of a musician who had already downed a few mugs of beer.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Practice… flirting?”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“What fault do you find in me?” He raised an eyebrow.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“To behave so terribly to so good a man was proof of her status as the queen of fools.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“inconspicuous little ledger, the same size and shape of her beloved book of Shakespeare sonnets.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“why should I choose you now when you did not choose me then?”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Her happiness wasn’t worth all the trouble she would cause if she left.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Why did she tether herself to this cruel man? Why did she allow herself to be claimed as his prize, when he had done nothing to deserve her?”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“his withered lips a closed sphincter,”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“What is this great secret?”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Why wasn’t that enough to make her leave him?”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“had to count for something.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Perhaps he was her destiny.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Why had she not gone to him?”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Rather, a bright shard of hope made her impatient for an impossibility.”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“Can a man who treats the woman he loves with such contempt ever truly feel the consequences of his actions?”
― Emma Golding, Rooted

“How could she tease him about his honesty when it was the very reason she begged to stay aboard?”
― Emma Golding, Rooted