Reckless
Cornelia Funke
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Nobody loves only once.”
“The night breathed through the apartment like a dark animal. The ticking of a clock. The groan of a floorboard as he slipped out of his room. All was drowned by its silence. But Jacob loved the night. He felt it on his skin like a promise. Like a cloak woven from freedom and danger.”
“He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul.”
“Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?”
“How loud a heart could beat. Until it took your breath away.”
“The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.”
“What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like a bed of leaves. But this was dark, like the shade under a poisonous shrub, and it was hungry. So hungry. It must have some other name, just as there couldn't be the same word for life and death, or for moon and sun”
“The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.”
“She shed no tears. She just sat there, as if someone had cut out her heart.”
“Girl. Woman. So much more vulnerable. Strong and yet weak. A heart that knew no armor.”
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Book Keywords:
jealousy, love, dark-fairy, hurt
