Quotes from Sherry Thomas

To the beginning of the rest of our lives. —Leo

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity?

You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.

The Inquisitor stared at him. "Your Highness, where is Iolanthe Seabourne?" Right here in this room. He was on guard, very, very much on guard. Yet he still felt his lips part and form the shape necessary to pronounce the first syllable of the truth. "I thought we had already established that I have neither interest in nor knowledge of your elemental mage." "Why are you protecting her, Your Highness?" Because she is mine. You will have her over my dead body.

While I breathe, I hope,

The Castle. He'd seen this expression far too many times during their marriage. The Castle was Bryony drawing up the gates and retreating deep into the inner keep. And he'd always hated it. Marriage meant that you shared your goddamn castle. You didn't leave your poor knight of a husband circling the walls trying to find a way in.

A messy business, rescuing princes.

At deception he means. Perhaps I am better than some, but every woman has a great deal of experience presenting herself as someone other than who she is, since no girl is ever everything the world wants her to be.

Outwardly, other than her hair, she had not changed much. She was still more or less the same cool, aloof woman who garnered more respect than affection. On the inside, however, it had been impossible to return to the person she used to be.

Friendship is untenable for people in our position.

Her Leo, so bright, so beautiful. And in the end, so catastrophically flawed.

To be thought of as the perfect woman for a man isn't a compliment to a woman, it's more about how a man sees himself—and what he needs.

What is it?" she mumbled. "Something that will make my kisses taste like chocolate.

Dear Bryony, There are many things I wish I had time to tell you, so I will say just this: These past few days have been some of the best days of my life. Because of you. My fervent hope is that you are safe and well as you read this letter. That you will have all the happiness I wish I could have shared with you. And that you will remember me not as a failed husband, but one who was still trying, til the very end. Yours always, Leo

Love was not blind, but it might mimic a deteriorating case of cataracts.

No matter what you decide, knowing you has been the greatest privilege of my life.

They all three threw up shields at the same time, Titus for Iolanthe, Iolanthe for Titus, and Lady Wintervale for them both.

He'd gone into their marriage determined that she would never be alone again. In the end, she'd made him as alone in the world as she.

I try not to expect people to be who I wish them to be, rather than who they are.

A reflection of their story: imperfect, but to him the most beautiful of stories.

Even the boy who cried wolf was right about the wolf once.

I do not like the idea of bartering the use of my reproductive system for a man's support...

But I can only pray ardently that Fortune walks with you, that you discover hitherto unimagined strength in yourself and encounter unexpected friends along this perilous path that you must now tread.