Heart of Thorns Quotes

“For the entirety of human history, weak men have been afraid of powerful women.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Why shouldn't women get to craft the lives they wanted? Messy, complicated, vibrant lives full of adventure?”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“What was love if not a rippling bunch of nerves and valves misfiring? An equation with no known variables? An incalculable contraction of the heart?”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“I’m not a kitten. I know how to climb a tree.”
“So do kittens.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Fidacteu zeu biqhotz limarya eu naj. Trust your heart, even if it kills you.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Once upon a time, in a castle carved of stone, a girl plotted murder,”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Mia's fingers thickened, blood crawling through her veins. It was not the first time Quin had left a trail of frostbite in his wake. She couldn't account for the sluggishness of her hands or the kiss of cold against her cheek when he was near. Was this how it felt to be hated? Like sinking into a snowdrift, naked and exposed?”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“The sunlight on the water was golden”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“She felt a flutter in her belly. Butterfly or dove”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Her anger was a soft tapping from a distant room.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“if not for the tiny monsters lighting sulfyr sticks inside her skull.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“The illogic of love infuriated her. What was love if not a rippling bunch of nerves and valves misfiring? An equation with no known variables? An incalculable contraction of the heart?”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Her parents’ love had exploded like a shower of sparks in the sky”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Was this how it felt to be hated? Like sinking into a snowdrift”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“How sick a place Glas Ddir was to shame girls for being wild.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“The place you were born is not always the place you belong.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Tears were mercurial and untrustworthy. Feelings of any kind made a person vulnerable, weak, Sometimes she wondered if her body even remembered how to cry. Did she have whole mines of unwept salt stored up inside her? Maybe someday, like a pillar, she would crumble to the earth.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Of course you’re not interested in politics. Politics is about power, and yours has never been in dispute.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns