The Path of Thorns Quotes

“Life. A woman's life is the path of thorns," I say. "We walk through it, our feet will always hurt."

"I knew you were smart." She presses her lips together, calls me by my name for the first time. "Asher? My feet hurt."

I say, "Yes."

And we both begin to cry.”
― A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

“Secrets do not stay in the dark where we put them. Some lie dormant, but others slither beneath doors, over windowsills, through the cracks in walls, out into the light where everyone can see them, poke at them, know them.”
― A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

“And I realise that most people will remain somewhere as long as they can no matter that it’s no good for them. Home might be a pile of shit, but they’ll stay because it’s warm and the smell is familiar and they’ll cling to that.”
― A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

“I can’t take a fucking step but I land on a thorn.”
― A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

“They say she did not die,’ I breathe, a little carried away to speak of such things with someone who understands them. ‘They say she wrote herself into a book, with ink of her blood, and pages of her skin, a quill of her bones, all threaded together with her own hair.”
― A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

“This is the story you asked to taste, whether it be sour or sweet, it is done.”
― A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

“Just as I came to break this house, so too I'm breaking. The fault lines that run through me are growing wider and wider. I must leave before I'm entirely sundered.”
― A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

“I made myself beneath their notice, I learned to move oh-so-quietly along the corridors, to slip in and out of places I was not meant to be. To enchant the soles of my shoes so I could pass unremarked.”
― A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns

“I shake myself, feel the past cascade from my shoulders.”
― A.G. Slatter, The Path of Thorns