A Hunger of Thorns Quotes

“I cry out for every girl who was told to comb her hair and wash the mud from her face. To keep herself contained. To be ashamed of her voice, her hair, her flesh. To be quiet and good and nice. Girls are not nice. Girls are wild and fierce and powerful, and I will not let anyone take that away. Not ever again.”
― Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns

“If you stay home all the time, stories never happen. Sometimes you have to break something in order for the story to leak out through the cracks.”
― Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns

“Be a wild thing once more, the ancient forest whispers to me.”
― Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns

“Except now there is a raven in the rowan tree.”
― Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns

“What good are stories when the monsters are real?”
― Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns

“I am not the bright, shining star that Odette was. But perhaps Odette wasn't that bright, shining star either.”
― Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns

“A girl so full of wildness and passion and rage that maybe she couldn't contain the whole of herself.”
― Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns