A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Brigid Kemmerer
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”
“We are all dealt a hand at birth. A good hand can ultimately lose - just as a poor hand can win - but we must all play the cards the fate deals. The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.”
“The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.”
“Not all scars can be seen, my lady.”
“Words spoken in the dark in the middle of the night always feel so much heavier than they would at any other time.”
“When my sister died,” Freya says quietly, “it was very sudden. I had no time to say goodbye. But she knew I loved her. I knew she loved me. It is not the moment of passing that is most important. It is all the moments that come before.”
“Rhen,” she calls after me. I pause in the doorway and face her. “I’m not going to fall in love with you,” she says. Her words are not a surprise. I sigh. “You won’t be the first.”
“It [is] possible to be strong and yielding at the same time.”
“This early in the season, the other girls would sit by the hearth and gaze at me over crystal goblets, while I’d pour wine and tell stories with just enough devilishness to make them blush. If I put a crystal goblet in this one’s hand, she’d likely smash it and use the shards to cut me.”
“I do not understand how she can fill me with such hope and fear simultaneously. I pull her hand to my chest and lean in to her, until we share breath. My lips brush across hers. It is barely a kiss, but she is somehow closer to me, her body a pool of warmth against mine. I want so desperately to turn it into more, to see where this blossoming attraction will lead.”
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