Tess of the Road
A source page for quotes linked to Rachel Hartman.
“No matter how much you wanted to do right in this world, the world would find a way to crush you.”
“You’re stronger than you were when it happened.”
“Beggars, alas, could not be choosers.”
“What was rage but a cover for some secret fragility, some sorrow?”
“That was basic hound logic, learned from Faffy: if you ran, you were prey.”
“If you have a personality, you’re a person.”
“Your life is not a tragedy. It’s history, and it’s yours.”
“This is my road. I’m so happy you came and traveled with me.”
“You can't walk away without also walking towards.”
“Ah, I could last a long time on those smiles. I would sow and reap them like wheat.”
“When the rest of the mind has fled, sometimes there’s music left.”
“I couldn’t work out how to get home. Someone moved the mountains.”
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
“No penance could be more terrible than this. Her very heart was dead.”
“The body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.”
“Sin is etched into women's very form. To the devil with her form, then.”
“My companions ate the bear. I found I had no appetite.”
“How was the wolf to blame, if the sheep were roaming free?”
“Dragons aren't good at metaphor.”
“Walk on, yes, but don’t walk away from people who need you.”
“What’s a mother for but to be blamed?”
“She was the river, and the river had nothing to be ashamed of.”
“You will wander the dark places under the earth, but you will come back with the sun.”