The Knave and the Moon Quotes

“Do not let the light go out of your eyes.'
A tear fell down my cheek. 'There's no light in stone, Bartholomew.'
'That is true.' He peered out the window and nodded at the moon above. 'And yet.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“Wherever she is, my home is there, too.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“To those who look upon the world and feel despair, I promise there is hope to find, yet. Love to spend yet. There just has to be.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“You’ve heard it before, I’m afraid. That is how stories are. They echo to stay fed; the snake, consuming its own tail.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“I’m prettier than that bitch ever was.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“She looked up at the moon and the moon looked down at her and they were the same: ever-changing, always constant.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“Rodrick Myndacious, the heretic, the beautiful rogue—the best knight I’d known—hadn’t bothered calling out to gods or men? Was it wrong to hope that, just before he died… … He’d said my name instead?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“I wanted her so badly, I'd let her hurt me. I'd let her do anything to me.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“Oh, Bartholomew, I was forlorn without you. What a marvelous capability for love I have.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“We kissed each other, two heretics tasting worship.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“I love you, Sybil Delling. More than anything. And whatever becomes of this world, I'll spend the time I'm afforded without an ounce of pride or disdain or godlessness.' His thumb brushed my lips, his gaze imploring. 'To know you is to forget all three. And I know that you think Traum has no need for its stone objects or false gods, but there is not a world that exists in which I have no need for you.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“I’d know that face anywhere. In wakefulness or in dreams, in daylight or moonlight—in life or death—I’d know it. Rory.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“What kind of kingdom had I woken to, where the privilege to exist was not guaranteed but granted, perhaps by those most unfit to bestow it?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“Still got decent balance, or are we out of practice?'
'Does walking all over you count as practice?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“I couldn't escape from thinking how perfect she might look if she plunged her hand into my chest, removed my heart, and gnawed through its toughened tissue between her teeth until her clothes were stained red”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“Toady fucking twats’?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“To know the world is, in some part, to mourn it, and to live after death… Now that is strange magic, and an even stranger fate. And while we don’t all get our second chances and life often proves a battle, I have wondered and pondered, and now I am certain: My story is the same as all of Traum’s. I would never have truly lived if, first, I had not died. Death, after all, is its own kind of rebirth.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“I told you: The body remembers.” The gargoyle began to hum. “Our feet always take us where we need to go.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“What a human thing to want something so badly you let it hurt you.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“I already told you. I’ve nothing left to give. If it’s a kiss you’re after”—my mouth thinned behind my veil—“you’ll die waiting.” A low laugh echoed in his helmet. “You think I wouldn’t?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“There was light to touch, yet.

Things to dream of, yet.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“Not all that are lost are gone.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“no one told me to love is always in some way to mourn—you can never truly love anything unless you allow yourself to see it clearly. Even when the looking breaks your heart.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“History has a habit of echoing.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“If you are determined to go, I will not look away. For whatever time we have left together, I will look you in the eyes, Sybil Delling, and you will know that I love you.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“I’ll do anything you ask of me. Rodrick Myndacious. The knave. The foulest knight in all of Traum. Rory. My Rory. Back from the dead.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“You look upon me, but you do not know me. I am older than the world, younger than time, permanent as the sky, and temporal as a dream. It is I who measures Traum's portents. I who Divines what is to come, for naught but the past can foretell the future.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“The gargoyle leaned close to the water and whispered conspiratorially to his reflection. “I’m prettier than that bitch ever was.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“Is it too much to bear?'
I met each of their gazes, Maude's stoic and green, Rory's and the gargoyle's stone, and realized none of them had ever once peered into my eyes hoping to find themselves. They had always, always, searched for me. 'Not right now.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon

“She looked up at the moon and the moon looked down at her and they were the same: ever-changing”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knave and the Moon