The Spire Quotes

“You should never sit around waiting for life to start because it’s leaving you with every second.”
“You should explore the world,” I said, tears springing to my eyes for no rational reason. “Do dangerous thing. Ignore the fuck out of conventional wisdom. Walk on fire. Treat everyone with kindness because people are the only things worth holding on to. Live without regrets because there is no time for that shit. Never forget the way home, and leave a trail of breadcrumbs if you have to. Love, and get your heart broken, and say fuck it, and love again and then again.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“I want…everything. I don’t know what everything is, but I want it.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“You might leave, but I’m not letting go of you. If that’s what you want, you’ll have to fight me.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“I’ll always wait for you. Don’t you dare doubt that” … “I’ll be right here when you’re ready for me.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“She flew with her own wings, and I had to let her. She’d come back to me in due time, and she’d come home, too.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“He ran his nose along my neck with a needy growl. Fuck, I liked that sound. It screwed with my feminism to admit this, but I liked reducing him to his basest instincts. I liked him hungry for me, and desperate to kiss and bite and growl and fuck. Or maybe that was exactly how feminism was supposed to go.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“I want everything,” I whispered. I pressed my face to the hollow of her neck, and when I scraped my teeth over the delicate skin there, her body jerked against my hold. “Come to my room, lovely. Let me have you.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“Just fuckin’ take me, woman. Have me, flaws and failures and all.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“I needed to see her. It was wild and illogical, and in the right light it was manic. I just didn’t care.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“And whatever you do, never pass up an opportunity to get married on a lobster boat under a full moon with Jupiter and Mars as your witnesses.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“Sure thing, darlin',”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“Being given shit doesn't require me to accept it," she said.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“Not Frozen. I'd rather be Hawkeye than anyone from Frozen”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“Oh God," Nick said, clutching his chest. "I love it. You're the Riot Grrrl version of the Little Mermaid. You're the Third Wave feminist Little Mermaid who told the prince to go fuck himself, and then went on to turn the underwater community into conservation activists, aren't you?”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“Sweet, cherubic Jesus, this might've been a terrible plan.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“The Dragon is over 360 years old. Paul Revere and John Hancock drank there. It's the alehouse of revolutionaries, son.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“I can acknowledge that I should've handled things differently, or want to be better in the future, but wishing the past away, no matter how awful it was, is a disgrace to the moments you've lived. All that you've survived.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“There can be no secrets among runaways”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“It helped that my father had finally found his true calling. We could all breathe easier knowing he was now busy managing day-to-day operations in hell. Some would say it was wrong to disrespect the dead, but I'd say his inability to respect the living was the greater crime.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“But I knew who I was, and I knew that the spot inside me created specifically for the purpose of loving and being loved was gone. Amputated, like a limb damaged beyond repair in the bloodiest of battles. In its place was a thick stump of scar tissue that had no business feeling anything at all, but that didn't stop the phantom pains.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“Your husband," he said finally. I looked down at the slim platinum band on my ring finger, the one I wasn't even sure why I was wearing. "Your husband is asking because nine years is nine too many.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“You should explore the world," I said, tears springing to my eyes for no rational reason. "Do dangerous things. Ignore the fuck out of conventional wisdom. Walk on fire. Treat everyone with kindness because people are the only things worth holding on to. Live without regrets because there is no time for that shit. Never forget the way home, and leave a trail of breadcrumbs if you have to. Love, and get your heart broken, and say fuck it, and love again and then again. And whatever you do, never pass up an opportunity to get married on a lobster boat under a full moon with Jupiter and Mars as your witnesses.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“I didn’t have a clear vision of our future, or how we’d get there. I only knew that my compass pointed toward Erin, and bringing her home – wherever that was for us – was the endpoint.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“For years after leaving home, avoiding ... had been my superpower, and I wore it like a merit badge. It served me well. It allowed me to engage to the degree that was comfortable for me. It gave me the space to work through all – um, most? – of my issues. But it also wore the ties between me and my siblings down to threads, and my muscles didn’t remember how to reach out anymore.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“Please don’t make it hurt,” she whispered.
I shook my head and dropped a kiss on her forehead. “Never.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“He brought his palms to his eyes with a miserable groan before glaring at me.
“That’s unacceptable. Make it stop,” he said, pointing to my hand on Erin’s hip.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“It wasn’t as simple as attraction, not even close. Attraction boiled down to looking and liking, and I knew all about that. Looking and liking had been my preferred mode of operation for years, and it had never once grabbed me by the gut and said Don’t let that woman go. Lust wasn’t the culprit either. It was something else, something that resided past the bounds of language and fully in the land of intuition.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire

“In my haste to run far and fast from Angus, I’d also shredded the threads that tied me and my siblings together. Little more than a trail of burnt bridges and breadcrumbs led the way to the only people I could call my own.
…
They were a unit, and I was the outlier.”
― Kate Canterbary, The Spire