Crimson Bound Quotes

“This is the human way, she thought. On the edge of destruction, at the end of all things, we still dance. And hope.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“..You always have to choose between the path of needles and the path of pins. When a dress is torn, you know, you can just pin it up, or you can take the time to sew it together. That's what it means. The quick and easy way or the painful way that works.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“Do you think that doing the right thing will always be pretty?”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“I knew you lived," her mother said after a moment. "Any daughter of mine would be ruthless enough.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“The problem with martyrs is that they’re all dead”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“But that’s what makes it so exciting. Will she kiss me or will she kill me—I think every man secretly wants to play that game”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“In all your life, your only choice is the path of needles or the path of pins.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“Whatever creature you turn into, whatever form you take, I won't let go of you.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“She had won them the sun and the moon, but she had become a monster”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“Every day for the last three years, she had thought she deserved to die. She still didn’t want to. She wanted to live with every filthy desperate scrap of her heart”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“Her dreams were a tangled mess of blood and shuddering trees”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“Mademoiselle, you are very kind," he said to Soleil. "But I did not lose my hands for the purpose of making you feel special.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“There were three of them, all with rapiers, and she had only a dagger. It would have been a wretchedly uneven fight, if she were human.

It was still a wretchedly uneven fight; it was just uneven in her favor.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“I think sometimes there is no right thing.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“He knew what she was and he was not letting go.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“He leaned close and breathed in her ear, "You will be the lady dearest and most dreadful."

For a moment, she almost felt the wind of the Great Forest in her hair.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“For your penance," the Bishop said finally, "say three rosaries, one for each year of your sinful life, and offer them for the people you have harmed."

"That is not remotely enough," she snapped.

"Do you need also to confess doubts about the power of God to forgive sins?"

"Yes," she admitted after a few moments.

"In that case, for your penance, say only one rosary.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“Then he kissed her again. And kissed her and kissed her, until her heartbeat was a song and her veins pulsed with honey and fire, and his arms were around her and he was not letting go. He new what she was and he was not letting go.

She had never understood, until now, what it would be like to kiss somebody who was not trying to use or master her. Who cleanly and simply /delighted/ in her.”
― rosamund hodge, Crimson Bound

“Speechless?” asked Erec. “Don’t be ashamed. I bring all ladies to that state sooner or later.”
“Too bad for you,” she said, “I’m not a lady.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“I grow impatient, little girl.” “Then learn to wait,”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“The question is," said Amelie, sounding like she had just come to the end of a long speech, "are you brave enough?"

"What?"

"I can't make you beautiful," said Amelie. "I'm going to give you the most beautiful makeup you've ever seen, but if you just sit under it and - and wilt, you'll look pathetic. It's like a sword. If you don't wield it, then it isn't any use to you. And it's all right if you want to look pathetic most of the time, but this is my one chance to show anyone what I can do, so you are not going to ruin it. Understood?”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“If we all got what we deserved we'd all be dead. And yet somehow God refrains from smiting us. Whatever you ought to have done then, dying won't undo it now.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“He grinned at her, and it felt like there was no space or barrier at all between them, like his smile was happening inside her heart. Without meaning to at all, she smiled back.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“Just because things were fair didn't make them easy.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“I killed somebody and I'm not sorry," she said, calmly and very distinctly. "I don't think you want me on your altars unless blasphemy is the custom of your kingdom.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“She had never, in her whole life, been satisfied with peace.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“I tell you, there was nothing she would not do for her brother.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. “I wouldn’t love you if you were any weaker,” he said, and let go of her.”
― Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound