The Heir Apparent Quotes

“All I can tell you is that the right person will know who you really are, and they’ll love you anyway.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“I just want my mum”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“the right person will know who you really are”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“Lining up in a row with their hands on their hips like a row of teapots.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“But Mum’s devotion to us was like gravity. It was as dependable as the rising sun, the tick of the clock, the slow, relentless expansion of the universe. There was nothing we could do or say that would make her let go.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“Until we can have a frank conversation about the past and make amends for our sins, we will be unable to move into the future.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“just want my mum”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“How long did it take you to get over your mum?” “I’m still waiting.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“From the dark shadows she had cast over my childhood, I half-expected a bad fairy from a German folk tale.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“There was nothing quite like knowing my father’s heart was somewhere outside his family, that my very existence was not what he yearned for or imagined for himself.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“The horror of it consumed me for days, finally hardening into a pebble that rolled to the back of my mind, bothersome and always there.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“Time ticks on, a ruthless metronome, on and on and on and on.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“Just for one strange moment, time feels like a rope that can be gathered back up in your hands.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“Most disasters in our lives are so sudden, so quick, it’s as if we can stomp back to the Before and undo what was just done.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“I couldn’t believe he was disappearing into the fog without me.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“I couldn’t believe he was disappearing into the fog without”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“There was a time when all I wanted was to be where I am,” she went on. “But I didn’t quite realise the sacrifice that it would require. I didn’t realise I’d lose my baby. I didn’t realise what it would be like—living on a landfill of secrets, the stench of it making me sick all the time, making it impossible to sleep.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“She didn’t flirt and fuck, scheme and conquer, just for me to ruin it all a few centuries later.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“It all felt like a tangle I had no hope of ever undoing. I could only try pulling things straight and living with the knots that remained.”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“somewhere. This time”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent

“But now I trudged through each day under the impossible weight of exhaustion. As soon as I pressed my head into the pillow”
― Rebecca Armitage, The Heir Apparent