The Paths We Lay Quotes

“If I created a design like this for someone, I think it would be a love letter. No one, not even a god, puts that much effort into something unless it's meant to impress the recipient.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Paths We Lay

“Wraythe, if we're too strong, we're hags. If we're too tough, we're bitches. For our entire lives, we've been taught to equate helpless with desirable, and finding someone we trust enough to let our guard down? It's appealing. It really does make us feel like we finally fit the definition of what society says beautiful should be.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Paths We Lay

“Two men together?" she asked, glancing at me. "It's not natural." "It's perfectly natural," I countered. "As much as sterile priests and women who enjoy contact with their husbands. The only reason it's not accepted is because it doesn't make someone else stronger." "What?" she asked. "Your son finding love with another man doesn't result in a marriage to a prominent family, or children to bind your houses together. It doesn't create a line of offspring to bolster your position. That, Madam Ranndor, is why people look down on the pleasures of the flesh, but it has nothing to do with the naturalness of it.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Paths We Lay

“Talin, I don't want to love someone because I desire him. I want to love someone because of his heart and mind. I've given my body to Zeal to do with as he pleases. My heart and mind aren't as easy to win.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Paths We Lay

“I think, Priestess, that your god intends to throw you in everyone's face, and yet he knows they will never see the depths of your potential. They will be too distracted with the beauty to see the power lying underneath.”
― Auryn Hadley, The Paths We Lay