House of Lies and Sorrow Quotes

“Two hundred days went by. Okay, it was only four days. But it felt like two hundred.”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow

“You’re hurt,” he said. It wasn’t a question. “I’m fine.” My words sounded foreign. “Don’t tell me you’re fine. You’re bleeding.”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow

“If I wanted to kill you, Princess, you’d be dead right now.”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow

“I was easily expendable, Which was why I was being sent to my death.
Okay, I was being sent to my marriage. But what was the difference?”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow

“Tessa leaned in with the same smile she always wore while gossiping. At least my upcoming death was important news to her.”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow

“Show no weakness. Yield no mercy.”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow

“Of course, nobody was going to ask my opinion on the matter. I was just the dumb human, along for the ride.”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow

“But that's the thing about rumors: Truth is usually mixed in there somewhere.”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow

“Jade’s eyes were blaring into me, but I didn’t meet them. I couldn’t. One look at her and I would burn the entire damned forest to the ground.”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow

“You remind me a lot of myself, Jade. But I must warn you—Malachi isn’t the brooding, obedient prince everyone takes him for. He’s a crack of lightning in the middle of a thunderstorm. Be very careful.”
― Emily Blackwood, House of Lies and Sorrow