Bree Barton > Quotes

“For the entirety of human history, weak men have been afraid of powerful women.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Why shouldn't women get to craft the lives they wanted? Messy, complicated, vibrant lives full of adventure?”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“What was love if not a rippling bunch of nerves and valves misfiring? An equation with no known variables? An incalculable contraction of the heart?”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Fidacteu zeu biqhotz limarya eu naj. Trust your heart, even if it kills you.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“I’m not a kitten. I know how to climb a tree.”
“So do kittens.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Mia's fingers thickened, blood crawling through her veins. It was not the first time Quin had left a trail of frostbite in his wake. She couldn't account for the sluggishness of her hands or the kiss of cold against her cheek when he was near. Was this how it felt to be hated? Like sinking into a snowdrift, naked and exposed?”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Once upon a time, in a castle carved of stone, a girl plotted murder,”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Here’s something to think about, Z. I want us both to feel like we can talk honestly about what we’re feeling. But not everyone will be a safe space for all of our messy, goopy, glorious feelings. So it’s a funny balance we’re trying to strike, you know? We want to be brave about sharing our truth, while also being wise about who we choose to share it with. Not everyone deserves your whole heart.”
― Bree Barton, Zia Erases the World

“My own heart feels like it might spill over. It’s fuller than it’s ever been, jam-packed with everything—sadness, joy, fear, pain, depression, hope, love. But it’s a big heart, bigger than I ever used to think it was. Big enough to hold all those things without breaking.”
― Bree Barton, Zia Erases the World

“How sick a place Glas Ddir was to shame girls for being wild.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Of course you’re not interested in politics. Politics is about power, and yours has never been in dispute.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“Pilar knew better than anyone that survival did not come in a silken bonnet. Survival meant dirt and blood under your fingernails.”
― Bree Barton, Tears of Frost

“Tears were mercurial and untrustworthy. Feelings of any kind made a person vulnerable, weak, Sometimes she wondered if her body even remembered how to cry. Did she have whole mines of unwept salt stored up inside her? Maybe someday, like a pillar, she would crumble to the earth.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns

“In some ways, talking about it—remembering the ache in my chest as my heart shattered into a million pieces—is like picking off a scab and making the blood flow again. But it’s also a relief to say the words.”
― Bree Barton, Zia Erases the World

“But I believe grief has power. It flows through us whether we want it to or not. If we ignore it, the grief builds up inside us and leaks out in all kinds of ways. If we remember what we lost, the grief gets stronger--but we get stronger too.”
― Bree Barton

“The place you were born is not always the place you belong.”
― Bree Barton, Heart of Thorns