Emily Lloyd-Jones > Quotes

“I grew up thinking monsters could be slain."
"Ah," he said. "And I grew up thinking people were the monsters.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“The anticipation of the loss hurts nearly as much as the loss itself. You find yourself trying to hold on to every detail, because you'll never have them again.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“This was how normal people survived their own fairy tales.

They became their own kind of monster.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold

“Home was taste and smell and sensation. It was not a place.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“And perhaps this was the truth about the dead. You went on. They'd want you to.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“And perhaps, even back then, Ryn thought that if she could love the monsters - then she could love those monstrous parts of herself.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“It was a risk, to love someone. To do so with the full knowledge that they'd leave someday. Then let go of them, when they did.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“Nothing comes for free. We just don't know what it'll cost.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold

“She was half a wild creature that loved a graveyard, the first taste of misty night air, and the heft of a shovel. She knew how things died. And in her darkest moments, she feared she did not know how to live.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“Monsters were unrestrained, unbound, and beautiful in their destruction. They could be slain but they would never be truly defeated.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“Death is not to be feared," he said. "But nor can it be forsaken. One must be mindful.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“She reminded him of an ocean - beautiful, with enough salt to kill a man. He suspected it would take a knight or a hero of legend to impress one such as her.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“To love someone was to face the possibility of losing them, and she feared another loss could shatter her.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“She became her own knight; she collected those broken promises and whispered apologies and fashioned them into armor”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold

“She was a girl held together by knitted yarn and magic.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold

“The living had a tendency to make promises they could not keep.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“The forest did not scare her; rather, she wanted to be like it: ageless and impervious, cruel and beautiful. Death could not touch”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“There was something about siblings - a language that was half memory and half glance. Jests and jibes. They were a tangle of love and resentment, and despite their differences, Ryn knew he would defend her to the death.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“She’s a lunatic,” says Conrad.
“Absolutely insane,” says Guntram.
“Either completely fearless or utterly stupid,” says Conrad.
“She’s going to fit right in,” says Guntram.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, Illusive

“Death should be peaceful - the dead have earned that much.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“Because names have power. Always have.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“Life is a weirdly themed party”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold

“Mer had always considered herself a decent judge of liars. But she had forgotten it was possible to lie without ever uttering an untruth.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Drowned Woods

“She held on, knowing that sometimes that was all a person could do.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“She reached down, found his hand with hers.

Their fingers tangled, wrists pressed together.

No pulse between them.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold

“This - this was what came after. Living.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“If I come across a problem, I take my axe to it. Or bury it. I'm good at burying things.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses

“I feel like that sometimes...I feel like I'm this collection of broken pieces I don't know what to do with.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold

“Fairy tales with all the shine taken away from them were simply stories of desperation. Of hungry wolves devouring children and jealous stepsisters who hacked off their own toes to fit inside a glass slipper.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Hearts We Sold

“I prefer to be awake and in pain rather than unconscious and unfeeling.”
― Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Bone Houses