A.N. Horton > Quotes

“I thought about addiction. It was a high that you were always chasing, something that you need as desperately as your next breath, something that consumes you entirely for better or for worse. For my father, it was gambling. For Victoria, it was worrying. And for me, it was Alexander Langley.”
― A. N. Horton, C is for Conspiracy

“Love is a not a weakness.”
“For some of us, it is.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“He whispered my name like a prayer and I ignited.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“We were together and so we were whole. It was like coming home, like finding the calm amidst the storm, like peace and passion all at once. It was everything. And it was so powerful that it pulled me completely, entirely under and I never wanted to resurface again.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“...the people who looked up at the stars and believed they foretold their future. Because they needed to feel that they had a future.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“She’s tearing the world apart to find me,” I breathed in awe.
“She is,” Gemini nodded her agreement this time. “But it’s entirely possible Lark would tear it apart to get you back.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“I think there’s a part of me that calls to you. And a part of you that calls back.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“Don't let his gentlemanly airs fool you, Miss Porter. Alex Langley is one of the toughest men I ever met.”
― A. N. Horton, B is for Bookies

“Because it’s easier to blind people with faith than to guide them to the truth and the beauty it beholds.”
― A.N. Horton, The Third Ring

“So I screamed and screamed and, when I was done, when my face was wet with tears and my voice was hoarse and there was nothing else in me to break, that glass of water, the one that the King had told me to move, it shattered into a million pieces.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“this whole godsforsaken city could burn to the ground for all I cared, because that was what it deserved for the way it took everything good, everything right in the world, and destroyed it.”
― A.N. Horton, The Third Ring

“I hated him but I ached for him. I hated him in the way that you could only hate someone you had loved.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls

“We starve. And then your priests come down twice a year to tell us how lucky we are, how grateful we should be, that not a single one of us or our ancestors has made it through enough of the Trials to be elevated, that our brothers and sisters are stolen from us and sent on to some undisclosed fate we’ll never know, that we can serve the Geist with our sacrifices, with our pain, with our hunger.”
― A.N. Horton, The Third Ring

“I thought you said it was forbidden to kill here,” I said.
“What I should have said,” Lark began, leaning forward, “was that it was forbidden to get caught.”
― A.N. Horton, All That Falls