Bloodwitch Quotes

“I trust you as if my soul were yours.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“From the day she had stabbed Aeduan in the heart, that heart had become hers—and she would not let this be his end.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“She stole his breath now, and he had no breath to spare.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“She trusted him. She had claimed his Aether, and she would guide his blade.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“How is it,” Stix asked, “that men always seem to claim victory over the triumphs earned by women?”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“And if they underestimate you, then you're the one with all the power.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“He was caught, like the man from the tale who wanted to feed his family during a blizzard, but could not bear to kill the lamb. In the end, everyone died of starvation, including the lamb. For Lady Fate makes all men choose eventually. Even Bloodwitches.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“He was a Bloodwitch no longer. He was a monk no longer. He was man, just a man. It would have to be enough.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“But one need not be evil to become it”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“But there was no reason. There never had been. He was just a child, trapped in the wreckage of war. He had not done this, he had not caused this. Yet he had lost his life to it all the same.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“His thumb moved, back up her palm toward her wrist. His skin was rough. His touch was not.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“People with different aims could always be pitted against one another.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“He was born a monster, he will die a monster, and monsters do not get to have friends.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“No one asks for what life gives them”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“Loss was such an abstract thing until one was pressed beneath it and forced to stare into her dead eyes.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“He has left you, though. And he will leave you again. Over and over, Iseult. The world will burn around you, but he will never come.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“But the power to cure life can also be the power to take it away.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch

“After all, trustworthy people do not wear masks.”
― Susan Dennard, Bloodwitch