A Power Unbound Quotes

“I would take your heart between my ribs and guard it like my own. Is there any way I can make you believe it?”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, unmake me, and love me anyway.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“Except, perhaps, if you bent your will towards unlearning your own history. If you let yourself soften and be porous. Even if only like this, in silence, at an angle.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“Ross said, “Ask me if I’ve been paid for it.”
“Ask? I only have to look at you. Men would bankrupt themselves.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“Now it was Maud's turn to laugh. She gave Jack an affectionate look from her position on the floor. Intolerable. Jack was never going to rid himself of any of these people.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“I want to kiss you until your mouth forgets it exists for any reason but to let me taste it. I want to kiss you so well, and so long, that every narrator in your books will crawl off their pages and die from sheer jealousy”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“The past could turn you into a strip of paper with a single side, so that comfort and vulnerability slid away down invisible channels and couldn’t be grasped.

Except, perhaps, if you bent your will towards unlearning your own history. If you let yourself soften and be porous. Even if only like this, in silence, and at an angle.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“Alan was expecting sarcasm. Something to hurt. Jack was very good at that, and Alan had just poked him in a piece of vulnerable history. But Jack said, almost roughly, 'I thought that you were one of the loveliest things I'd ever seen. And that you'd stolen my best cufflinks.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“I would take your heart between my ribs and guard it like my own. Is there any way I could make you believe it?”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“You choose your leaders terribly.” “That’s a common human failing, all right,”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“You already know I’ll steal for them. I stole opportunity. If the world were different, I wouldn’t have had to, but it’s the way it is, and so I’ve been scared my whole life and angry for even longer. It’s exhausting. You have no bloody idea how exhausting it is. Some people get exhausted out of the anger early, because they need all their energy simply to stay alive.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“I would put your heart between my ribs and guard it like my own. Is there any way I could make you believe it?”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“would take your heart between my ribs and guard it like my own. Is there any way I could make you believe it?”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“Jack could hold a silence with the best of them. And Alanzo Rossi, Alan Ross, was in Jack’s five-day experience of him a pitch-dark room scattered with mousetraps.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“Alan had known Lord Hawthorn would be here. He’d prepared himself, he thought.

He’d been wrong. He’d forgotten the speed with which this hatred rose simmering within him. He’d forgotten that the edges of it crossed boundaries where it stopped feeling like hatred and became something wilder and more dangerous.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“Jack was doing one of his long-legged sprawls in his usual armchair, like a wet spider that someone had draped there to dry.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“The ugly carpet was surprisingly comfortable.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“the distance between those who had power and those who had none had widened, and the willingness of leaders to take responsibility—for land, for their own actions, for anyone else—had withered.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“The past could turn you into a strip of paper with a single side, so that comfort and vulnerability slid away down invisible channels and couldn’t be grasped. Except, perhaps, if you bent your will towards unlearning your own history. If you let yourself soften and be porous. Even if only like this, in silence, and at an angle.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“There’s only so much fight in a person. If it never lets up, if they can never rest—it gets squeezed out of them, forever.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound

“I would write you into immortality. I would trap you in ink and wear the pages next to my skin until they fell apart. Kiss me until I know you. Kiss me until you know me, and unmake me, and love me anyway.”
― Freya Marske, A Power Unbound