Innamorata Quotes

“From the moment I met your eyes above Adele-Blanche’s desecrated body. I knew that I would die a thousand deaths waiting for you.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“And that was how, at the tender age of fifteen and already gravid with twins, Adele-Blanche, Mistress of Teeth, became the most dreadful and illustrious woman in Drepane, second in her power only to the king himself.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“And if ever you are afraid”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“Yet here was a creature upon which the world had so far left no mark, who held no ill feelings in its heart, whose mind was too unformed for thoughts of malice or vice. A fear clutched at her then, a terror that the world would sully it. That her arms would never be protection enough. What had her arms even done, before she held this child? What had her soul done with this surfeit of love?
-Book II - Chapter VII - Wanting , Which Lies like Sleep”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“You are my first thought upon waking, and my every dream in the dark.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“I knew that I would die a thousand deaths waiting for you.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“She was a night-blooming flower that did its growing in the dark, nurtured by the moon and weaned by the stars.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“The secret was that humanity is wretched in its essence, and we loathe to be reminded of our own rote repulsiveness. We hate to remember that we have bones that creak and grind at their points of juncture, blood that pulses wetly and turbidly through our veins, and muscles that distend and undulate when called upon to move. A man hates most of all his own heart, his own lungs, his own eyes and flesh and teeth, and he is grateful when he can displace this hatred onto another, when one is so openly, so garishly odious that it appears exceptional. The most blessed sights in the world are the most vulgar, and the most frightful are the most mundane.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“Absolute reality was too much for any human to bear.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“Pliny realized that he loved her. She was his new mistress. His devotion slid into place like a wheel finding its groove.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“they had poured themselves these gushing goblets of passion and drained them both in a single gulp.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“the secret at the heart of it all—that not even the threat of the kingdom’s ruin would make them regret what had been done.”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata

“The act of disappearing was a mightily visible one. A lady who spoke little could be forgotten. A lady who did not speak at all evoked”
― Ava Reid, Innamorata