Marie Rutkoski Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as if her name were not a name but a question. Or perhaps that it wasn’t how he had said it, and she was wrong, and she’d heard a question simply because the sound of him speaking her name made her wish that she were his answer. The Winner's Crime

2. Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. The Winner's Curse

3. He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that. The Winner's Kiss

4. His dear face, dear to her, dearer still. how could she love his face more for its damage? What kind of person saw someone's suffering and felt her heart crack open even wider, even more sweetly than before? There was something wrong with her. It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful. The Winner's Crime

5. She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. I’m going to miss you when I wake up, she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.Don’t wake up, he said. The Winner's Crime

6. She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. I’m going to miss you when I wake up, she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.Don’t wake up, he said. The Winner's Crime

7. She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self. The Winner's Crime

8. She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. I’m going to miss you when I wake up, she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.Don’t wake up, he said. The Winner's Crime

9. She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self. The Winner's Crime

10. Someone was coming through the velvet.He was pulling it wide, he was stepping onto Kestrel’s balcony—close, closer still as she turned and the curtain swayed, then stopped. He pinned the velvet against frame. He held the sweep of it high, at the level of his gray eyes, which were silver in the shadows.He was here. He had come.Arin. The Winner's Crime