“I had been waiting, all my life, for someone undeceived to love me.” — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“But my family I had always had a duty to love, no matter how they had wronged me.” — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.” — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense. But now I knew… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“If you desired someone, if he comforted you, if you thought he might leech the poison out of your heart, was that… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“We'll both be foolish," I said, "and vicious and cruel. We will never be safe with each other." "Don't try too hard… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“I still wasn’t sure that I loved him. Love—the kind that was holy to Aphrodite—was not something I had ever allowed myself… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“Love is madness,” I say. “Doesn’t everyone agree that you’d do anything, endure anything, to be with the ones you love? So… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“Arms around me in the dark. Lips against mine in the sunlight. Do you know why I love you? He knew me.… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“His hands tightened around mine. “I love you,” he said. “I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel,… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“I hope you aren't planning to order me back to bed." "No, you have far too much crockery at your disposal.” — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“I still wasn’t sure that I loved him. Love—the kind that was holy to Aphrodite—was not something I had ever allowed myself to think… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“I tried. As the darkness closed over me, I fought to remember the name of my husband. I fought to remember the name of… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“«Speaking the truth is like gulping a mouthful of brandy: it burns on my tongue, but a moment after my body feels warmer, looser,… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“Come. I was on my way to the park; I know a quiet spot where you can sit down." "In public? With a servant?"… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“People who want to be loved", I say, "always do the most idiotic things...” — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“If one of us had to die, it ought to be the one with poison in her heart.” — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
“Arms around me in the dark. Lips against mine in the sunlight. Do you know why I love you? He knew me. And loved… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
