Ruven Quotes

“You loved those nuns as a dog loves its masters, begging for scraps, licking their feet after they kicked you. And they loved you as a man loves a sword or a spade.”
― Rosamund Hodge, What Monstrous Gods

“I think they did love us,’ Ruben says finally. ‘Only… not enough.’
And I believe him.
But still I say, a hollow echo of a thousand catechism lessons: ‘It’s right to love the gods more than anyone.’
‘It is,’ he agrees, and my heart thuds with sudden surprise. ‘But even so, it wasn’t right how little those nuns loved you.”
― Rosamund Hodge, What Monstrous Gods

“All my life, I thought I loved the gods more than anyone, but truly, I only ever loved pleasing the people around me.”
― Rosamund Hodge, What Monstrous Gods