Courting Darkness Quotes

“You are a blade that has been brutally forged, painfully hammered, and wickedly honed. You are steel, not poison. You are deadly, not depraved. They are very different things, Sybella.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Women like her are worse than the men they serve. They cling hardest to the very rules that cage them, ruthlessly ensuring that all other women are equally trapped.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Your love cannot change a man – or a god. All it can do is open a door, create a new path for him to choose. One that has not been open to him before. That is what the power of your loved can offer him – all of that, and no more.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“My stomach churns at how foul a place men have made the world - aided by the women who blindly adhere to their rules.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Time is the best salve for heart wounds. Reminding oneself of the small joys and comforts that can still be found in the world. A voice in the dark, a friend, the smell of fresh apples. All of those, over time, can help.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Given the choice between protecting the innocent without Mortain’s grace or risking eternal damnation, I will protect others every time. My own true nature has nothing gentle or restrained about it. I am darkness made flesh, but it is the darkness of mystery, the endless night sky, and the deep caverns of the earth. It is the darkness that can love a man like Beast. The darkness that will protect those I love with my last breath.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“The king’s face relaxes, almost into a smile. This is the sort of motivation he can accept from a woman. Motivation that does not threaten his own sense of power. One that supports, rather than supplants.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“God makes use of what tools He can find.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“You have no idea what my honor will allow.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Are you so very confident of justice in this world?”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“How thin is the line between self-defense and willful murder?”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“But Sweet Jesu, this loving someone is hard. Might as well rip a piece of one’s heart from one’s chest and feed it to wild pigs.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“The anger is no match for the carefully honed edge of my self-loathing.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Heart wounds are the hardest to heal.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Time is the best salve for heart wounds. Reminding oneself of the small joys and comforts that can still be found in the world.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Sometimes, the death of those we hate is harder to bear than that of those we love. I think once they are dead, all the things that might have been, all the truces that might have been called, all the broken pieces that might have been mended, are now sealed for all time. It is final, this hate.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Knowing something and seeing it are very different things.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“All victories are bittersweet. It is simply a matter of degree.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“When one strikes too close to the truth, people react defensively.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“It takes far more courage to love than it does to hate. And even more courage than that to have faith in that love.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“If you are allowed to love a monster, then so am I.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“I give Fortune’s wheel a spin and use it to launch a counterattack.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“You are my heart, how can you ask me to leave that behind?”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“I do not play dice or gamble. Except with my life.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“Far too few people experience such solicitude. The world would be a far better place if they did.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“To fight evil things—to truly fight them and protect others—you must sometimes use those same methods.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness

“My stomach churns at how foul a place men have made the world- aided by the women who blindly adhere to their rules. The regent has more power than any woman in France. It would be so easy for her to soften the way for others. That she does not feels like the rankest of betrayals.”
― Robin LaFevers, Courting Darkness