Sophie Keetch > Quotes

“My name is Morgan,” I said. “And there aren’t enough words for all that I am.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“In truth, Morgan, I can no longer remember when I haven’t thought of you. It’s as if you’ve been my whole life.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“Morgan is my name, and its origin true at least - “sea-born” by way of the Welsh tongue.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“If I’ve learned anything, it’s that with loss, with mistakes, there is often a way forward, even if there is no way back.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“This sea brought you forth to life - I can hear it roaring in your veins. It brings you strength, is felt in the tidal shift of your moods.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“To honour the ones we love, or avenge them, we must survive.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Never apologize for seeking further wisdom, or for being remarkable.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“My name is Morgan. And there aren't enough words for all that I am.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“All empires fall, brother, and so too will yours.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“This, where we stand here and now, is life. It’s joyous and awful and complicated, sometimes painful, but it’s real and true. Often, it doesn’t make sense—there isn’t always a move you can make to fix things, or a logical way out of a trap. But there’s always light to be found, if you would just turn halfway from the darkness.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“If I am not for you, then I am for no one.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“Remember, the key to any glamour skill is belief. Believe you want to disappear. Intend to exist outside of mortal sight.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Constantly told our bodies are troublesome, complicated, our insides a dangerous tangle compared to men’s? Yet it is nowhere in this book, nor anything we’ve studied. We are half of this living world and no one has ever seen fit to write us down.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“Isn’t it far better to choose a fate entirely on your own terms, in service of your deeper talents and wants of the mind, rather than be led by the weakness of the heart?”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“We can only truely depend on ourselves - I know that now. I wish I had learned it sooner.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“Do not apologize, Lady Morgan. Your decorum leaves a little to be desired, but never have I been able to fault your work. Never apologize for seeking further wisdom, or for being remarkable.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“I smiled for the first time in what felt like an age. I am destined to be the madwoman for eternity, but I will fear no man on this earth.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“Every life, in its entirety, can be found written upon the heart. So it can be read there in death, and lived again. I wonder if there’s any literal truth to it.’ ‘Ever the physician,’ Accolon said, with such proud affection I felt myself blush. He put a hand to his chest. ‘Perhaps that’s why the purest joy or pain is felt here.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“How many times did I have to say it ? How old, how angry, how mutinous did I have to be before he realised I would always defy him, no matter the punishment; that with the last breath in my body, I would fight him and refuse to obey any word that came from his lying muderer's mouth.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“I was what remained: Morgan, sea-born and I caged, shattered but soaring, returned to life.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“If you are unholy then I am damned along with you.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“There is nothing simpler than convincing a man of what he believes he already knows.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“Dare not mention the Devil, lest he appear.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“I have been a despairing girl, a reluctant queen, a firebrand wife, a sister in need, a thwarted mother, an unrepentant lover, and have chosen defiance against this realm and its attempts to cage me. But I am no traitoress.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“My mother was marble, her strength cool and smooth and patient; I was dark and made of shards, formed under pressure in places light did not reach. I was flint and always had been.
And I was also steel: hard, forged in blazes, bright and glittering sharp.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“The name, peregrine,” my father said. “It means ‘wanderer.’ ‘She that roams.’ ” He looked down at me, lines on his face drawn grave. “Do you know what her greatest strength is, Morgan?” “Yes. Her talons, for the crushing of skulls.” He had told me so on our very first flight—the beak is sharp and worth your caution, but never forget her talons: there death resides. But today, I was wrong. “Survival,” he said. “At any given moment she can fly away, knowing she can live. She doesn’t need me, the falconer, or the shelter of the mews. That is the greatest power of all.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“We were water then, fluent, indivisible; a lake in a rainstorm, rippling with life; a waterfall colliding with itself in tumult and thrill; a river in spring thaw, wild and unceasing, rushing to meet the salt embrace of the sea.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“I was made of stone, as if Medusa’s rage had uncoiled within me and caught sight of its own ferocious reflection.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“I have both given and taken, fixed and broken, wronged and been wronged, and never in my life have I stopped fighting for the freedom that is rightfully mine. For all this, I am not sorry.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay

“dissipated until there was nothing but a quiet yet soaring euphoria, as if I could sprout wings from my shoulder blades and fly away on the wind.”
― Sophie Keetch, Le Fay