Fair, Bright, and Terrible Quotes

“It all ended in cold flesh. This prince, the war, and every life. It ended in cold flesh, no matter how hot the blood that had once pounded through it. She had always known this, of course. But there is knowing a thing, and then there is feeling the truth of it cut you open and close around your heart.”
― Elizabeth Kingston, Fair, Bright, and Terrible

“She touched her fingertips lightly to the side of his face. She had not touched him so since he was a child, and he looked down at her rapt. Whatever she said now, he would remember it. 'The things we do out of hate, and those we do for love,' she told him. 'They come back to us. One by one, they return to us in some form, some time.”
― Elizabeth Kingston, Fair, Bright, and Terrible