Цитаты из книги Rosemary and Rue

Мы должны гореть ярко, раз уж не можем гореть вечно.

Власть выводит на поверхность худшее почти во всех.

Нельзя стать рыцарем просто так, этот титул надо заработать либо долгой службой, либо имея уникальные способности, которые кто-то хочет иметь в своем распоряжении.

I was her hero, and I failed her. In the end, I was just like everyone else. I visit her grave as often as I can. I leave bouquets of rosemary and rue, and I tell her that I`m sorry, and I promise her that next time, I`ll do better. Next time someone makes me a hero, I`ll save them.

I think I may finally be starting to understand what`s important. It`s all about finding the way home, wherever that is.

Playing mind games with Devin was like playing with dynamite: someone always got hurt in the end. I was hoping like hell that it wouldn`t be me.

"We missed you." "I missed me, too."

— Кому захочется сравнивать возлюбленную с цветком настолько острым, что он режет все, к чему прикасается? — С цветком, который цветет, несмотря на погоду или время года, и может защитить себя в случае необходимости? Не вижу проблемы. — Я пожала плечами. — Если бы меня назвали стеклянной розой, я не стала бы возражать.

Кошки никогда не слушаются. Но все же они зависят от человека: когда Рим сгорел, императорские кошки все равно ждали, когда их будут кормить.

Парковщик подъехал на обтекаемой спортивной машине того специфического красного цвета, который характерен для дорогих автомобилей и помады уличных проституток.

Changing clothes in a public restroom is an acquired skill, one that becomes an art when the bathroom floor hasn`t been washed in a decade or more.

I`ve never liked being looked at like I was a hero. I always wind up letting someone down. Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes the only person who gets hurt is me.

We all know about you, because he talks about you all the time. Even when you thought you were dead, he kept talking about you. We`ve heard about everything you`ve ever done, because you`re the one that got away - you`re the one that were his, and stopped belonging to him. And I want to know how you did it. Because we`re gonna do it, too.

People ignore more than you give them credit for.

Don`t let any of it go to your head. Not your position, not your nature, not who or what you are. You may be immortal, but you aren`t invincible. None of us are.

We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly... and I had no idea what I was going to do without her.

Great. I was cold, exhausted, and cursed, and know I was being harassed by something that moved too fast to see. That`s always how I like to spend my time.

Once she grew up enough to figure out that Devin could only control her as long as she let him, she`d be fine, and if she never grew up that much, she belonged at Home, where someone else would take care of the real world and she would take care of her chores.

Evening was a lot of things, but she was never cruel, not even to her puppets. Her hands were always gentle on my strings.