Rhoswen Riddle > Quotes

“Perhaps this is what death truly is…not the dramatic final moments we imagine, but this quiet surrender to the inevitable. It doesn’t discriminate between hero and villain, between the innocent and the guilty. It simply takes what it wants, when it wants. And in the end, we all sink into the same darkness, carrying nothing with us but the echoes of the lives we’ve lived and the love we’ve shared.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“Bones will knit with Time. But Time is also Death’s brother, ever eager to lend him a hand.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“They say home is not a place but a feeling. I think, perhaps, it’s simpler than that. Home is wherever the people you love are willing to go with you.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“Morality is only clear in hindsight… and by then, it’s too late to choose differently.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“Why was this world created if not to be saved from its own recklessness? We build systems to cage ourselves, then call it order. If breaking them is violence, then perhaps violence is simply honesty.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“Is he flirting with me? Is this flirting? This feels like flirting.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“I confess I have something of a shortbread addiction. Some men are felled by drink, others by gambling. I? I am at the mercy of buttery, crumbly perfection.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“Sometimes mercy looks like cruelty from the outside.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“But loving me is like watering a dead flower—you can pour all the devotion in the world into something that will never bloom again.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“Fear is a fucking waste of time. It never stops what’s coming—it just makes you suffer twice. Once in your head, and once when it finally arrives.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“Being a bookworm helps.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince

“Death wears a pretty face.”
― Rhoswen Riddle, The Masque of the Silver Prince