For the Throne Quotes

“Someone pays for the mistakes we make... Either we do, or we leave it to those who come after us.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Monstrousness is a curious thing. In it's barest form, its simplest definition, a monster is merely something different than you think it should be. And who gets to decide what should be, anyway?”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Heroes and villains and the spaces between, a prism that changed reflections depending on the angle you turned it.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Saving someone else was a wall you couldn’t scale unless they threw you a rope.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“To anyone who grew thorns instead of flowers--You had your reasons.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“What changed my mind,” he said, “is that I realized I couldn’t kill you. Not even to save the fucking world.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“of course they loved each other, that was never in question. But the specifications of it, the parameters and ways the corners fit… that was more complicated. She”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“I kill my own monsters.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“They all knew that love made monstrous things necessary sometimes. They all knew their own capacity to burn worlds down.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Love devolves very quickly into horror when gods are involved.'

'Love can devolve quickly into horror with anyone.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“She seemed like someone who thrived in conditions others thought she should wilt under.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“You think love is so difficult,’ she murmured. ‘Such a fraught thing. But sometimes, it can be simple, even when everything around it is not.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Strange, what she used to be afraid of.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“What's a soul but the most concentrated piece of yourself?”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Tying the reason for your existence to a god seems to naturally lead to your existence not mattering much.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“You’re worth reaching into the dark for.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Darkness was so much easier than the intricacies of humanity.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“He would say he didn’t trust Kayu as far as he could throw her, but she was a small woman, so he could probably throw her much farther than his trust would extend.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“You don’t need a compass when you are yourself a map.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Monstrousness is a curious thing. In its barest form, its simplest definition, a monster is merely something different than you think it should be. And who gets to decide what should be, anyway?”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“He didn’t sound sorrowful, not really. But there was a finality in his tone, and a sense of emptiness. The difference between knowing something was gone and feeling its absence when you reached for it.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“That’s the kind of love you needed. Feral and fierce and capable of drawing blood.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“That’s the trouble with religion,’ Neve said. ‘Tying the reason for your existence to a god seems to naturally lead to your existence not mattering much.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“told him I was sorry,” he’d said, “and trying to make him forgive me is about my feelings, not his.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“May the next world be kinder, Beloved," he said quietly. The seamstress closed her eyes, smiled. "It has to be.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“So if you keep your humanity,” Neve murmured, “you’re more than a soul.” A pause. She felt his arm tense against hers. “You’re more than a soul,” he agreed.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Goodness was daily choice, endless possibility, a decision at every crossroads.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“One should always be on their guard when bargaining with once-enemies.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“To anyone who grew thorns instead of flowers— You had your reasons.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne

“Very rarely can the entirety of fault be held by one person.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Throne