The Shattered King Quotes

“I didn’t want to just survive anymore.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“I would shift the seas for you,” he whispered, tracing the shell of my ear. “I would let the gods shatter me every noon and midnight. I would worship you until my last breath.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“I know that anger is a shield,” I tried, ignoring his weak jab. “I know it’s more comfortable to wield than what it hides.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“It isn’t wrong to take medicine when sick, and it isn’t wrong to find joy in mourning.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“I looped my arms around his waist and leaned into him, trying to memorize the feel of him, committing it to memory beside Ursa and my babe and all the other things I had lost, so that on long nights when I was weakest, I might remember this, a spark of happiness in a sea of could-have-beens.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“You can obviously do hard things; figure it out or don’t play.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“I wondered how much pain, how many symptoms, he bore that could not be discerned with the eyes.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“I would shift the seas for you,” he whispered”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“I know that anger is a shield,” I tried”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“know that anger is a shield,” I tried”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“I died,” I confessed, and all the pressure swept out, leaving me empty and cold.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“I would give you every oath,”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“Take heart, Nym. They need you. Do not forget it.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“Adrinn is everything I am supposed to be, but am not. He is strong, cunning, masculine—” “Your Highness, please do not try to cajole me with your ideals of masculinity,”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“But you’re hurting right now. The lens through which you see the world is cracked.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“I tilted my head to take more of him, to taste his sweet and his sorrow. I poured into him my aches, my brokenness, my hope. Coaxed his lips apart, and the heat of him zapped through me, a loop of lightning from crown to soles and back again. I breathed”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“stones beneath me, bloodied. My hand brushed”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“There was a sort of appeal to seeing boys who tested your patience sunup to sundown in a state of harmless innocence.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“Nothing.” “I know that anger is a shield,” I tried, ignoring his weak jab. “I know it’s more comfortable to wield than what it hides.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“that it isn’t a sin to be glad. It isn’t wrong to take medicine when sick, and it isn’t wrong to find joy in mourning.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“wondered if the god Hem was meant to be slain and then resurrected.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King

“a wide net tethered by our similarities, strong enough to catch all our differences.”
― Charlie N. Holmberg, The Shattered King