Tessa Gratton Quotes

“Sometimes we forgive others because it keeps our own hearts whole, not because they deserve it or for any thought of them.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear

“I don't want to be chosen above all things, one thing most of all. I want to be a part of someone's whole.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear

“I won't love anyone so much more than everything else that I lose it all if that person is lost. If it makes your world smaller, it isn't love.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear

“Rain is not always a storm. The wind does not always howl. Sometimes death is quite, or love is peaceful. There are little things.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear

“No one thing keeps Innis Lear alive or its heart beating! That is not love! That is selfishness. That is pretending we are all only one thing. Only a star, only a woman, only a bastard. You're more than that, and I am, too: a woman and daughter of a foreign queen and a star priest. I'm all of that. Take one piece away and the rest shifts and changes, just like...just like this island, or any land.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear

“If there are tears on my cheeks, the hot fire eats them away.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

“They say she was a monster already.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

“Then, before Rhun charges, I leap from him, running toward the dead. His steps beat after me, and I hold out my hand. Our fingers link. The dead slather gleefully and lick their lips. It is the third night of Samhain, and we run together.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

“My prince was not the worst, by all I've gathered, but he was bad enough. He was beautiful like stars are beautiful, like angels are suppose to be. Cold, alien, pristine. Being with him was like drinking the most delicate champange all the time, until I didn't care that when he laughed there were teeth all the long way down his throat.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

“The Bear son was surrounded. But it did not matter. He cut thorugh them all, laughing.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories

“The Bear son was surrounded. But it did not matter. He cut through them all, laughing.”
― Tessa Gratton, The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories