A Word so Fitly Spoken Quotes

“He should have chosen you years ago.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Your body is the vessel that tethers your soul to this side of the sun. It’s what keeps you here with me. That, and that alone, is what I love it for.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“you’ve endured so much pain, so much hate, and yet, it’s never once broken you. It’s never caused you to lash out or become cruel. That is strength, Farin. To endure cruelty and remain tender in heart. It takes strong skin not to develop a callous.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“I’d wait a millennium if I thought i had the slightest chance with you.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“No Asha, Queen of Naenden, weaver of tales and protector of the helpless, a girl—no, a woman—like you deserves to be cherished. Right here. Right now. To eternity and every fleeting moment in between.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“I can see you’re not impressed,” he said, “but if you only knew the joys of being immersed in another world, the way the written word can transport you—”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“My face might not have been useful in attracting men. But, in my experience, I found there were more men out there worth repelling than attracting, so I tried to consider myself lucky.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“What do you know of the fae?” Only what I can learn from the whispers. I know that you traveled to Alondria through a Rip in the fabric that separates worlds. I know you are a swift people. A strong people. That your injuries heal before any true damage can be inflicted. I know there is one among you who rules the rest, who led his people through the Rip and slaughtered hosts until the original inhabitants of this land submitted to his will. Tell me, how many worlds have your people conquered? Mother’s mouth went dry, and her voice croaked as she said, “Just this one. We might be a mighty people in this world, but this was not always the case.” Ah. That explains it. “Explains what?” Why you’re so unnatural. “Thanks.” I only mean that you have no place in the order of nature, not in Alondria, at least. Here, there is no foe, no predator to balance you out, to keep you from devouring life itself.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Your name will die with me. Know that I loved you to the end.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Take our hearts an we’ll pretend we offered them freely.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“My tutor used to tell me that true bravery rips the soul wide open. That there's nothing that hurts more than being truly courageous. And that, if one lives through their bravery, they're rewarded with a heart immune to being ripped open by anyone else.”
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“Maybe falling out of love with someone isn’t like that,” I offered. “Maybe it’s just something that happens when we aren’t paying attention to it. Not one pivotal moment. It’s just all the little not-moments that add up. The moments we forget to make.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Okay, I definitely wasn’t imagining things. Kiran had most certainly scooted closer to me at some point in this conversation. How I hadn’t noticed earlier, I had no idea. Perhaps because you were the one who slithered your way up to him. I changed the subject.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Why in Alondria would you take a book over the real thing?” He cocked his head at me again, his eyes scanning every feature of my face. Every crease where my magic had marked me as its own. Every divot of skin it had taken. Every smooth patch left untouched. When he finally spoke, his voice was raw and gritty. “Perhaps the anticipation of a thing is more fulfilling than its reality.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“In fact, perhaps I did drift off to sleep, because the words that rumbled through the steamed air, wrapping me in a cocoon and setting my blood on edge—they couldn’t have been real. I must have dreamed them, because there was no way I heard what I thought I heard. “The next being to leave as much as a scratch on your skin forfeits their privilege to breathe.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“No,” I said. “I think what you did…I think it was wretched. But you can sit here and wallow in it, or you can master it. Use it to fuel change. That, I could…well, I could at least respect that.” He winced. “Respect me, you mean.” Dangerous territory. I was flirting with that fire of his, for sure. “I don’t know why it matters to you.” “Because I prefer for feelings to be mutual,” he said. His words caught me, bound my voice in a way my magic had never managed.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Not your muscles or your bones. Your heart, Farin. You are kind, and you are curious, and you’ve taken—” She choked on the memories the words brought to her mind. “—you’ve endured so much pain, so much hate, and yet, it’s never once broken you. It’s never caused you to lash out or become cruel. That is strength, Farin. To endure cruelty and remain tender in heart. It takes strong skin not to develop a callous.” Farin bit his lip, chewing on this new bit of insight about himself. “Then you’re strong too,” he said.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“From where I’m standing, there was nothing for that boy to work through.” His words lodged a rock inside my throat, then twisted. I opened my mouth, but nothing but garbled mumbles came out. Habit scanned the inflection behind his words, searching for mocking, but it found none. I didn’t dare look at him as I excused myself from the breakfast room.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“try to dwell on anything other than what it would be like to join myself to her, to become one, to knit my soul with a being who had kept hers pure. I’d probably just soil it anyway.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“But isn’t that half the fun?” he asked, more genuinely than I had expected. “Guessing the end and then being able to celebrate yourself if you’re right, or celebrate the storyteller if you’re wrong?” So that was why the king of Naenden had kept me alive? Because he was bored and couldn’t stand a cliffhanger? As if murdering both his brother’s wife and his own a few weeks ago hadn’t flavored his life with enough drama.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“blotches. “Because I adore you too much to let anything happen to you.” She frowned, a pained wince that looked as though I might as well have stabbed her in the gut. “But you could have waited it out, Asha. They might have never picked me. And, even if they had…” She jolted up and gripped her stomach, wincing as she fought for breath. Her pretty smile soured as she gritted her teeth. Agony stretched across my sister’s dainty features, contorting them and molding them until she finally managed to get the words out. “I would have rather died than… I can’t get through this, Asha. I won’t. The pain, it’s like it’s filling my lungs with water. I can’t. I can’t breathe.” I lifted myself onto my elbow and stroked her sweating”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“I think sometimes you forget I'm human.
We don't have centuries to forgive.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“You see, society only cares about a
woman's filter if that woman is eligible to marry.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Perhaps the anticipation of a thing is more fulfilling than its reality.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“I wondered then if it was the dynamics of a face that humans found so alluring. Not the features themselves, but the way they danced with one another, spinning and rippling, putting on a show.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“The next being to leave as much as a scratch on your skin forfeits their privilege to breathe.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“I think I’ve spent my life keeping one too many secrets. Secrets that were not mine to keep, yet, not mine to tell.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“And for that act of bravery, one so unexpected, so unnatural for your kind, whose only prospect, only purpose, is survival, I, the merciful ruler that I am, have deemed to grant her yet another day.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken

“Familiar, that’s what this was. Just another day of strangers hurling insults at me. Somehow, it grounded me.”
― T.A. Lawrence, A Word so Fitly Spoken