Rachel Hartman

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.

— Rachel Hartman

“I mistook you for a metaphor.”

— Rachel Hartman

“...emotions fly humans toward art”

— Rachel Hartman

“I'm awestruck that you had warm cabbages sitting around.”

— Rachel Hartman

Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

— Rachel Hartman

“Always I hev my fists and my war pipes!”

— Rachel Hartman

“Let the one who seeks justice be just.”

— Rachel Hartman

“I—I value your continued existence.”

— Rachel Hartman

“The borderlands of madness used to have much sterner signage around them than they do now.”

— Rachel Hartman

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

— Rachel Hartman

“I’m attracting small children,” Orma muttered, twisting his hat in his hands. “Shoo it away, will you?”

— Rachel Hartman

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

— Rachel Hartman

“Orma had given me a timepiece that emitted blasphemy-inducing chirps at whatever early hour I specified.”

— Rachel Hartman

“tactile than olfactory—but I could discern nothing else about it.”

— Rachel Hartman

“You’re not a villain,” I said. Or else we were two villains in a pod.”

— Rachel Hartman

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

— Rachel Hartman

“He’s got the place to himself. Once the other invalids learned there was a dragon coming, they miraculously got well! The lame…

— Rachel Hartman

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and…

— Rachel Hartman

“there are people in this world who commit horrifying and unnatural acts beyond anything your naive imagination could conceive. He is your…

— Rachel Hartman

“Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.”

— Rachel Hartman

“Have you read Belondweg?" "I coudn't call myself much of a scholar if I hadn't," he said. He was adorable and he…

— Rachel Hartman

“There are two sacred causes in this world,” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance…

— Rachel Hartman

I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him…

— Rachel Hartman

“An aged monk led me to the infirmary. "He's got the place to himself. Once the other invalids learned there was a…

— Rachel Hartman

“A thousand regrets I’ve had in love, A thousand times I’ve longed to change the past. I know, my love, there is…

— Rachel Hartman

“Please, Orma, I’ve already gotten you in so much trouble—” “That I can’t possibly get into more. Take it.” He wouldn’t stop…

— Rachel Hartman

“He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always…

— Rachel Hartman

“The resolve written in his eyes said no, but I could see exactly where I would have to push, and how hard,…

— Rachel Hartman

“All the important parts, yes," I said firmly. "Maybe not all the eccentric details. Ask, and I will answer. What do you…

— Rachel Hartman

Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his…

— Rachel Hartman

“He was laughing, silently, and then we were both laughing, and then something changed. It was as if I had been watching…

— Rachel Hartman

“It's such a relief after all these years to learn that you recovered from your fright," he said in a low voice,…

— Rachel Hartman

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

— Rachel Hartman

“How dare the world be beautiful when I was so horrifying?”

— Rachel Hartman

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

— Rachel Hartman

It is permissible to be the god of your own metaphors.

— Rachel Hartman

The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.

— Rachel Hartman

“Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.”

— Rachel Hartman

“Music is only work when someone else makes you do it.”

— Rachel Hartman

“I was half lawyer; I always noticed the loopholes.”

— Rachel Hartman