Heart Quote by Marie Rutkoski

“Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect,…

— Sonya Hartnett

“She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it…

— Scott Westerfeld

“He picked up his knife and started carving again. He concentrated on the lines and planes of the wood to keep his mind from…

— Lorraine Heath

“Each word plunged a knife into her body and spirit, crushed her with the burden of who she was.”

— Sarah sundin

“Kestrel studied her fingers, the way they wove together. She didn’t say Come back safely, and he didn’t say I always have. She said…

— Marie Rutkoski

“Her beauty was like the edge of a very sharp knife.”

— Janet Fitch

“The thought occurred to me that she could easily take her knife and slash it though my spine.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.”

— Tiziana Stupia

“Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with their beauty…

— Victor Hugo

“How much easier everything would be if that were so. But Kestrel wouldn't let herself consider the truth. She didn't want to know its…

— Marie Rutkoski

“Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.”

— Hans Christian Andersen

“The linen felt perilously thin between them, and she could feel the well-muscled contours of his chest and thighs and... and that obscene dagger…

— Glynnis Campbell