Avery Quotes

“He smiled. And as I looked at the naked beauty of the expression, I fell in love with him.
It was that simple, that complicated.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“I wouldn't pick you as the kind of man who'd care to die nicely."
He leant forward, lacing his hands together. "How do you think I'd like to die?"
"In a blaze of ice and fury." He was from Pirenti, after all.
The corner of his mouth hitched up at that, but it was a humourless expression, one filled with chipped edges and painted regrets. "And you?" he asked. " How would you like to die, Avery of Kaya?"
I picked up the oars and started to row.
"I'm already dead, Ambrose.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“It's simple, being hurt. But it's complicated, loving someone.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“I shrugged a little helplessly. ‘We have no say, in this life, in how hard things will be. What we can control is how hard we fight. How long we endure. How strongly we love.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“A woman's beauty is in her strength and her passion.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“She was abstractly beautiful, as I had always wished to be, but I now found her ugly, understanding as I did now that real beauty simply came from happiness.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“Who has ever loved as boldly as he does?”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“And then I stopped thinking about Prince Ambrose of Pirenti, because he was destroying me.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“And that was when I realised I wasn't the strongest man in the world after all. I was the weakest.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“Forget dying. I suddenly wanted to inflict pain. My anger was a living, breathing thing controlling my body, making me shake. It was funny what a person with only half a soul could feel: no joy, no pleasure, no amusement, no longing or desire or fear – but they could feel anger, more keenly than if they were whole. Sharper than they ever had before they were destroyed – anger like it kept you alive, anger like air. I’d thought, many times, that it might have been only this anger that allowed me to survive at all.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“Mostly I counted my son’s breathing, how many times he cried during the night, all the little sounds he made during the day, how many times he laughed in a week … I’d named him after his father, and they shared the same deep blue eyes – eyes that seemed to make the laboured beating of my heart so much stronger. And always, every night, the three of us would count the stars until we fell asleep.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“Fear like a fluttering raven in my breast.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“He smiled. And as I looked at the naked beauty of the expression, I fell in love with him. It was that simple, that complicated.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“And so. And so you came to the end after all, with no way out, no choice at the last on how you left this world. I should have known it would be this way: bloody and violent and surrounded by beauty.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“Treating a woman as if she could break at the slightest challenge is as bad as abusing her”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery

“I keep asking myself why this happened," I told him softly. "How you and I could have possibly ended up here, together. I think I'm supposed to help you realise."
"Realise what?"
"The man you will be.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Avery