Tusk Love Quotes

“It is my duty to marry well. Father writes that Lord Wensleydale is not too old and has all his teeth.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“His battered heart turning over with the bittersweet realization that tears were no source of shame. Tears meant that you had lived in the world. That you had been a part of it. Tears meant that you had loved someone. Tears could even be a victory in their own way. A sign that you hadn't let all the daily struggles, the myriad little uncaring cruelties get the best of you.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“For as long as there is breath in my body, you will not face this world alone, Guinevere.
Do you understand?”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“You’re all these things. But, Guinevere—” Her name hitched in his throat. Her name was a quiet rasp in this place of shadows and water. “You are also very kind and sweet, and much braver than you give yourself credit for. And you’re so…” He paused, as though struggling to find the right words. “You’re so interested in everything,” he whispered at last. “In all that this world has to offer. Your heart is bigger than the Marrow Valley. I don’t think I could leave you if I tried.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“Life could get hard and mean, but I didn't have to be.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“And what was grief, but a memory of love?”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“She was a lifeline in the sea of his grief,
her burnished fingers tentatively carding through his hair in soothing
strokes. And what was grief, but a memory of love? He’d run from that horrible last day for so long that he’d forgotten all the good ones that came before.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“Well, I never!” “You can ever,” he retorted.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“The road was long, yet it would always lead back to him.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“By the All-Hammer’s crusty underpants, I really did not sign up for this.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“I was protecting us the only way I knew how.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love

“You’re all these things. But, Guinevere—” Her name hitched in his throat. Her name was a quiet rasp in this place of shadows and water. “You are also very kind and sweet, and much braver than you give yourself credit for. And you’re so…” He paused, as though struggling to find the right words. “You’re so interested in everything,” he whispered at last. “In all that this world has to offer. Your heart is bigger than the Marrow Valley. I don’t think I could leave you if I tried.” He sounded distressingly pained for someone listing all her good qualities. Tentative, in a bewildered sort of way. Yet there was nothing tentative about him when he brought his lips down to hers. And, just like that, Guinevere had her answer to the question of whether his tusks would hurt her. They didn’t. She knew now how their mouths would fit together: Perfectly.”
― Thea Guanzon, Tusk Love