Foul Heart Huntsman Quotes

“Even if the memories never come back," he said slowly, "I'm going to love you again. I have decided to warn you in advance.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“You are bound to me in matrimony. If you break it and descend into another plane of existence, I will chase after you and snatch you back.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“I would have found you anywhere.” He reached forward. Tugged that piece of her hair, then tucked the curl behind her ear. “Across the world and under it. No matter how well you hide. It doesn’t matter where you go. I’ll always find you. Understand?”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Of course I was committed to her beyond what was acceptable for the mission. I was so fascinated because I could see the parts of you in her. I've loved you this whole time, just split in two.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“No, Celia, tell the truth.” His grip tightened on her. One hand rose, sinking into her loose hair. “You spoke correctly the first time. You’re afraid. I tell you over and over again that I want you, but you generate excuses for me. I tell you that I refuse to worship my father’s image of respectability, but you make it a matter of safety. I will love you if I please. I will make you my altar, I’ll put you above everything else in this world, I’ll revel in every morsel you are made of. It’s simple—just tell me you don’t feel the same, and I’ll let you go. But I won’t accept anything else. I won’t accept your refusal on the make-believe grounds of our work.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“You are my side. It is not betrayal.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“If I am to do some good, then I must make peace with my own limits. I would lose perspective otherwise.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“You are nobody.”
“Excuse me?” A wave of irrational anger overrode the pain of her landing. “I am your wife.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Hold my hand" Alisa huffed from ahead, extending her arm.
"What? Why?" Rosalind reached anyway and grabbed Alisa's hand. "Do you see something?"
"No, I'm offering emotional support.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Your life is mine as mine is yours- do you understand me? You are not allowed to die.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Tell your heart to stop pumping so fast."
"I can't," he replied weakly. "It swoons when you're around.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“I will love you if I please. I will make you my altar, I’ll put you above everything else in this world, I’ll revel in every morsel you are made of.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“No need for such force in the household!' Alisa continued from the living room, her tone upbeat. 'Take deep breaths! Remember, I love you all!”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“It’s not a crime to be born into privilege, what matters is using it instead of closing your eyes to it.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“I will love you if I please. I will make you my altar, I’ll put you above everything else in this world, I’ll revel in every morsel you are made of. It’s simple—just tell me you don’t feel the same, and I’ll let you go. But I won’t accept anything else. I won’t accept your refusal on the make-believe grounds of our work.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Then somewhere along the way, between our last petty argument and the fifth time you decided to sleep on my shoulder, I fell in love with you, and once I’ve tumbled that deep, I’m trying to understand everything you say no matter which language it’s in.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Biǎojiě," Juliette Cai said, grinning. "Don't you recognize me anymore?”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“I was waiting for you,” he said quickly. “I didn’t want to startle you, so I was waiting for you to come back. Don’t go.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Regret would always clothe her in a heavy shroud, change the way she moved and the way she met the world.
But so too did love. And it was warmer, thicker.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Celia's expression turned incredulous, as if she were being addressed by a rock that had grown a mouth to speak rock thoughts.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“An ever-expanding supernova. A hurricane that changed worlds and remade them.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Both of you just described the very definition of being afraid of something. Got it. We’re avoiding everyone.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Who was yelling at me?” he rasped. “I heard it all the way in the afterlife.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“I’ve been unbound for two days”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“I’ve always wanted to try being a hat rack for a career.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“I was not flirting—” “I was.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“I feel as though you forget that you don’t have to take pain just because you can.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“If you scare me, I do think it might help. Your eyes are so piercing that I can feel my heart rate picking up, and it’s sharpening my thinking—”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Those two are backstory. Forget about them.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman

“Silas had wondered, over the years, if maybe it was Orion he was in love with instead. Maybe Phoebe was only a stand-in until Silas could digest the minutiae of every feeling that lived within him.”
― Chloe Gong, Foul Heart Huntsman