Browsing Topic Best Kushiel's Dart Quotes

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Some chains are forged for us – those are the hardest to bear.

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.

There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm … these things are ever welcome.

That which yields is not always weak.

Whip us ’till we’re on the floor, we’ll turn around and ask for more, we’re Phèdre’s Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we’re Phèdre’s Boys! Man or woman, we don’t care, give us twins we’ll take the pair! We’re Phèdre’s Boys! …But just because we let you beat us, doesn’t mean you can defeat us, we’re Phèdre’s Boys!

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing’s true value.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

It’s funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness

For every victory there is a price.