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“I did not understand that I carried loneliness before me on a plate, and that music would be the light illuminating me from behind.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“The world is not enough for us without real work to do. The Saints mean to put you to some purpose. Pray, walk with an open heart, and you will hear the call. You will see your task shining before you, like a star.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was, my feet firmly planted, standing on my own.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“A thousand regrets I’ve had in love,

A thousand times I’ve longed to change the past.

I know, my love, there is no going back.

No undoing of our thousand burdens.

We must go on despite our heavy hearts.

A thousand regrets I’ve had in love, but I shall never regret you.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“...emotions fly humans toward art”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Ah, I could last a long time on those smiles. I would sow and reap them like wheat.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Love is not a disease.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Let the ones who seek justice be just.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to communicate that to others.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“His eyes fluttered shut, and he was quiet so long I thought he had fallen asleep, but then he said, in a voice so soft I could barely hear: "Love is not a disease. I'm not completely certain she was right, but I cannot let them cut you out of me, nor her either. I will cling to my sickness... if it is a sickness... I will hold it close to me like the... the sun... and the..."

He faded away again, this time for good.

The sky outside was blue, cold, and very far away; the sun to bright to look at, let alone hold close to me. "But I will try, uncle," I murmured, "though it burns me. I will keep it close.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“I cannot perch among those who think I am broken. "The thing is, Mother, you weren't broken," I muttered, as if she were standing right next to me. "I am. And it was you who made me this way."
Inside my head, the [memory] box twitched like a thing alive.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“If it can be known, I want to know it.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. If one believes there is truth in art—and I do—then it’s troubling how similar the skill of performing is to lying. Maybe lying is itself a kind of art. I think about that more than I should.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Invisible factors in my life would inevitably lead to my downfall. I felt I had known this all along. There was no escape.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“You are all that is left of Lynn. Her own people won't even say her name. I... I value your continued existence."
I could not speak. He had pierced me to my very heart.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.”
― Rachel Hartman

“We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.”
― Rachel Hartman

“I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Who will kiss you? Who will rock you to sleep?" His voice was slow, drowsy.

"You never did," I said, trying to tease him. "You were more father to me than my father, but you never did that."

"Someone should. Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“Love is not a disease...I cannot let them cut you out of me, nor her either. I will cling to my sickness, if it is a sickness. I will hold it close to me like the sun.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying?”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“I felt lighter when I had finished, and for once emptiness was a sweet relief and a condition to be treasured.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“It’ll be hard not to tease your folk sometimes.”

Brishen couldn’t imagine how she might go about such a thing.  He had no idea if the Kai and the Gauri even knew the same jokes or found the same things funny.  “What do you mean?”

He almost leapt out of his skin when Ildiko stared at him as both of her eyes drifted slowly down and over until they seemed to meet together, separated only by the elegant bridge of her nose.

“Lover of thorns and holy gods!” he yelped and clapped one hand across her eyes to shut out the sight.  “Stop that,” he ordered.

Ildiko laughed and pushed his hand away.  She laughed even harder when she caught sight of his expression.  “Wait,” she gasped on a giggle.  “I can do better.  Want to see me make one eye cross and have the other stay still?”

Brishen reared back.  “No!”  He grimaced.  “Nightmarish.  I’ll thank you to keep that particular talent to yourself, wife.”
― Grace Draven, Radiance

“Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.”
― Patricia Briggs, Moon Called