Emma Denny > Quotes

“What about you?’ Penn demanded. ‘Are you not similarly lost?’
‘Lost?’ Raff leaned against a tree. ‘I am not lost. I’m following the sunset.’
The sun had set hours ago, plunging them both into an eerie, moon-speckled darkness.
‘Not lost, but mad, then.”
― Emma Denny, One Night in Hartswood

“There is no honour in death. You need to learn to survive before you can learn to fight in a way which upholds your virtues. Besides, it is not cheating to understand another man’s weaknesses, or your own advantages
against him.”
― Emma Denny, One Night in Hartswood

“Still, it felt like more: I would rather freeze with you. I would rather die with you.”
― Emma Denny, One Night in Hartswood

“Marriage is a convenient way to remove an inconvenient child.”
― Emma Denny, One Night in Hartswood

“I am not lost. I’m following the
sunset.”
― Emma Denny, One Night in Hartswood

“I was not rid of you,’ he spoke quietly, trailing his fingertips across the fabric of Penn’s tunic. ‘I have not been rid of you since that first evening in Hartswood Forest. I followed you because I promised I would not allow
you to be hurt again. And—’ he swallowed heavily, ‘I needed to see you again.”
― Emma Denny, One Night in Hartswood

“Soon Penn would need to return to the keep, creeping back into his own
home like a criminal. He’d snake up the empty staircase, emerge from
behind the tapestry and fall into a bed that had never felt like his.”
― Emma Denny, One Night in Hartswood

“Jo’s skin was warm, and there were blackberry seeds caught between her teeth. Her heart was drowning, and she had never been so happy.”
― Emma Denny, All the Painted Stars