The Twiceborn Quotes

“Something nameless yet essential was gone from him and he couldn't bear the thought of it being stolen. It wasn't a feeling of great depth. It didn't weight down his bones or make thought an effort but, oh god, it was vast, stretching beyond an endless sea of emotion. He felt like a man adrift in a tiny boat with only a wooden spoon to dip out the water with. To try and make it dry again. To make it right again.”
― Rebecca Hill, The Twiceborn: Chiaroscuro

“In that moment she hated Sar, hated his simple way of life and the power he'd given her over it. Hated that somewhere, someone loved him enough to tell him that what he'd done was all right, even though they knew better. Hated him because he made her so aware of herself.”
― Rebecca Hill, The Twiceborn: Chiaroscuro

“Oh, but somehow, some way, maybe she had and just didn't know it. Those strange workings destined to always end with her standing like this over foolish boys like that and who was it who'd told her that from the moment of birth until the night of death, life was just one long wearing away?”
― Rebecca Hill, The Twiceborn: Chiaroscuro

“She didn't turn away, only watched, her black, black eyes nothing more than objects of dark existence, being rather than seeing, and he loved her and hated her with emotion so intense it stole away precious seconds of his dying life.”
― Rebecca Hill, The Twiceborn: Chiaroscuro

“All the whys and how comes he'd hidden from and maybe, just maybe, she could tell him of things he'd missed. Love overlooked.”
― Rebecca Hill, The Twiceborn: Chiaroscuro

“His soul,the only fire in a frozen river,spoke up and identified the sound as the Language of the Dead.”
― Rebecca Hill, The Twiceborn: Chiaroscuro