Because I Killed Him Quotes

“He never arrives empty-handed. Each time, he brings me something he gathers on his run—a feather from a mountain bird, a shard of pale quartz, a smooth stone threaded with a natural vein—as if, piece by piece, he’s bringing me the whole world.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Only a fool believes his life is governed by his choices alone. The wise understand that the choices of others carry just as much weight to influence, shape, and sometimes even to alter the course”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Seashells are everywhere. Baskets of them line the windowsills, scatter across the floor, and pile on the cushions of my sofa. A few are chipped, but most are flawless. Some are pale as bone, while others shimmer with coral pinks and dusky violets, still glazed with salt. I edge forward, my heart hammering so hard I feel it in the soles of my feet. Then I see Edmund’s note, tucked into the largest basket: Because you saw a pretty seashell and left before I knew which one.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“He uncaps a bottle of brandy but, instead of pouring, lets the cap fall to the floor. When he crouches to retrieve it, his hand brushes my ankle. My breath shudders as his fingers glide higher, lifting the hem of my dress enough for his lips to reach my calf. He leaves a trail of soft kisses along it, then looks up at me, smiling.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Even if the law says there can be no future with him, I now understand there can be no future for me without him.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Every time he touches me, it’s with all of himself, restrained because he knows he’s my first, yet with the kind of passion that makes me wonder if he wants to be the last.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Some men kneel to evil for wealth and power; others kneel to shield those they love. Yet whatever the reason, the truth remains: if the price is anything less than your own life, then you are for sale.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“I see it now. He’s the tallest, strongest tree in the forest, with roots so firm and immovable that trying to tear them out would only drive them deeper, all the way to the other side of the world. People like him can lose, but they can never be defeated.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“The worst part about hell isn’t the fire. And it’s not who rules it either. It’s that once you’re there, you can never leave.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Guillotines made of gold still cut off heads.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“loving Edmund means suffering in pursuit of an ending that can never be bright.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“There’s only one way to forgive. And when it’s done right”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“There can be love without happiness”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“enough?”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“If all our knowledge is online, they say, it can be edited, erased, and rewritten. Books are the only way the written word survives in its original form.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Blue is the sky and green is the grass. We exist together in the same world, but we are never meant to touch.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“But I won’t forget. If I can’t get an apology, I at least want someone to look me in the eye and acknowledge what happened.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Standing with his feet apart, he stares at the screen with troubled eyes. I know he isn’t numb to the sight of death, even if he acts like he is.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Some call me a radical who rejects authority, but what I truly seek is authority in its rightful form. I will kneel, and kneel humbly, before the man who earns greatness—but never before the man who steals it.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Is that what love does? Does it blur the lines of your ideals and soften the edges of your principles, until even the most steadfast people become hypocrites?”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Never forget: the only meaningful power comes from blood. No matter how much money you have, it can’t buy freedom, and it sure as hell can’t buy time. Guillotines made of gold still cut off heads.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“even hell can turn into an opportunity if you’re able to put up with being burned.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Some things arrive too early, others too late. But when they’re right on time, it can only be fate.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Out here, in the public eye, there’s no room for tears, breakdowns, or nightmares. Instead, I exist in the quiet space between, as if the world has exhaled, and I’m left drifting in the breath it left behind.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“The world doesn’t care about you”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Truth must breathe. Force it into the airless coffin of secrecy, and it will die, strangled inside you, only to return as a ghost that haunts eternally.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“I know it’s over. I accept it. The time is coming, soon, when I’ll let you go. I’ll move on, maybe even try to love someone new, but through it all, the faint mark of your teeth on my finger will stay. Reminding me of you. Of us. And of how, if things had been different, I’d have ridden on the back of your hoverbike all the way to the end. —CHARLOTTE DEERING, JOURNAL ENTRY”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“Trust me to look after you.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“We created gods, and in our blinding, reckless vanity, never asked the question: What happens if these gods come to despise us? —DOMINIC CRUPP, AN ORANGE”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him

“I arch an eyebrow, then laugh. “Is that mud?” His smile widens. “Yeah. From the ocean floor… so you can touch the bottom.”
― Edith Birde, Because I Killed Him