Misrule Quotes

“Tragedy teaches us things about ourselves and about others.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“Sometimes we do not like what we see. But we have to look anyway. We have to know.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“You saved me,” she says. I let out a breathless laugh. “Of course I did. I love you. I don’t know how to do anything else but love you.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“-And now I'm worried,

Aurora goes on,

-that you don't love me anymore. That in the last hundred years, you became obsessed with the idea of me. And that is not the same as love.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“We might never fully understand or relate to each other. We'll never be able to go back to the people we used to be. [..] But that doesn't mean it's ruined, does it?”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“Maybe Aurora only cared for me because it was easy to do. Because she held all the power. And now that the situation is reversed, she is no longer interested.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I understand that you care for her. That she was kind to you before. But sometimes Nimara, people are not who we believe they are.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I don't know how to do anything else but love you.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I’m sorry,” I say into her hair. “For not seeing you.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“What if she did attempt to alter my memories of you. But she couldn’t. Because our love was too strong. There wasn’t anything capable of harming it like that.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I need to know who Alyce is away from all of this.” Away from you, I don’t say. Because that’s not what I want. But it might be what I need—what we both need.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“Sometimes I think we could compare our wounds for the next century and still discover fresh ones.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“It was miracle enough that I won your heart the first time. I never believed I would be able to win it a second.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“A sound of pure delight leaves Aurora’s lips as the realm shrinks below us, one I think I will remember until my last breath.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“That’s what I’m trying to tell you—you don’t need to have secrets from me. I crossed an ocean to be by your side. I see every part of you.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“And just because something is at its worst doesn’t mean you should abandon it.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I want to tell her that I love her. That I hate her. That I’m angry with her for her constant judgment and criticism. That I’m sorry for her grief. But I say nothing.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“But, Alyce, that understanding doesn’t bring anyone back. It doesn’t change the fact that you’ve done to me and my home what Briar and the Fae did to yours.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“To me, death appears as a very long dream. And I am the ruler of dreams.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I’m sorry for you. For what they did. And for what it made you.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“It has always interested me the ways in which a tale will change based on who is telling it.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“Deep in her den, Mortania whirls.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“Tragedy teaches us things about ourselves and about others. Sometimes we do not like what we see, but we have to look anyway. We have to know.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I love you, Alyce," she says against my lips.
No matter what happens next, it is enough. It will always be enough.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“I wish I could scream at her. Hold her. And I search her expression for some hint that she's sorry. That she's realized she made a mistake.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“She betrayed you,'' Mortania fumes.
She did. Unforgivably. But in this moment, damn my feckless heart, I want to go to her. Burn this cursed tower to the ground and fly away with Aurora in my arms.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“But then Aurora rips herself away from me. It's like the sun being robbed from the sky.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule

“Perhaps it is time to break another.”
― Heather Walter, Misrule