Stone Heart Quotes

“It’s not in my nature to trust. If my life has taught me anything, it’s that everyone has an agenda, and those with power are only too happy to use it to get what they want—even if it means stepping on those below them. Maybe even especially then.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Better to be feared than desired. Better for me. Better for everyone.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Offering your heart to another person on a platter is a good way to get it thrown in the trash. Or a meat grinder.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“I don’t know where to start. You’re like a…something really cool and filled with all my favorite things and I want to play kid in the candy store with your body.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“now she will pay the price instead of the person who rightly should. She’s not married. He is.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“I’m not judging.” “Most people do.” “I think we’ve established that most people suck.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Better to be feared than desired.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“I feel very taken care of when I’m with you, and you make me want to take care of you, too.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“I tense up, caught between wanting to get away from this conversation and not wanting her to stop touching me like I’m someone valuable.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Watching you come brings me pleasure.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Or I don’t know if I’d qualify last night as fun. It was more like a religious experience, except I’m not religious and I don’t even know if I believe in the gods.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“She kisses me the same way she touches me; as if I’m something—someone—beyond price.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“But the result is that, until this moment, I’ve never had anyone look at me the way Medusa does. As if she can barely believe I’ve allowed her hands on my body. As if she’s about to pinch herself because this can’t possibly be real.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Some might call them imperfections, but they just make her that much more real to me. A goddess, yes, but a woman made of flesh and blood. A woman I wish was mine.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Athena doesn’t suffer failures any more than she suffers fools.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“This is the lower city. We don’t make a habit of murdering people who inconvenience us, and no one will be compelled to enter into any kind of sexual or emotional relationship if they’re not consenting.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Promise me that you won’t bargain anything away for me. That if this person asks for something outrageous or unforgivable, that we’ll leave Olympus. Together.” “I promise,” I lie.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“I want to wrap her up in my strength and step between her and whatever hurt the world wants to throw in her direction.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“kisses me the same way she touches me; as if I’m something—someone—beyond price.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“You’re honest.” “Awkward.” “Honestly awkward, then.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Love is all well and good, but love doesn’t pay the bills and love doesn’t offer the kind of safety that comes with money.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“We all do what we have to in order to survive.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“He’s the married one. Why is murder more acceptable than admitting he was wrong and ending the relationship?”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“I don’t have the nifty ability to click off my emotions like some of Athena’s other people do. Instead, I add to my nightmare fuel and call it a fair deal.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“The only time people talk about me, it’s with fear. Like I’m the boogeyman hiding under their beds, ready to kill them with a single attack. Still, at least they only talk about me in whispers, instead of saying it to my face. I prefer it that way, even if being called a monster hurts.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“That’s the beauty of this turn of events, of something that started out like a nightmare and now feels more like a dream. We have all the time in the world.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“She doesn’t deserve what’s about to happen to her, but sometimes the price of grabbing for power in Olympus is that you get violence and blood instead of prestige and jewels.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“You deserve to be valued for more than fucking, Calypso.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“I’m warning you now, Calypso, I’m going to fall in love with you. Prepare yourself.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart

“Gods, Calypso. I could get addicted to you.” Do it.”
― Katee Robert, Stone Heart