The Last Tale Of The Flower Bride Quotes
"Reality is what you make of your surroundings."
"In her kiss lay wonders—the humming of firefly wings and the secret of alchemy."
"In fairy tales, a kiss marks a threshold—between the state of being cursed or cured lies a kiss."
"There are two kinds of love—one born from smiles, and the other from screams."
"Fear tethered love in place. Without the terror that came from imagining a life without your beloved, there was no urgency in loving them."
"Pain is inexplicably vital to us. It pins us to the very fabric of our lives, that which joy and comfort and warmth have made alien and foreign."
"Only through the guise of myth could we speak to each other. Only beneath the borrowed light of a fairy tale could I look at Indigo for as long as I wanted."
"What if the breaking of the promise is the breaking of a spell?"
"Beauty transformed. Its presence could coax ambrosia from sour fruit..."
"To belong to the Otherworld, you must not belong to yourself."
"From the moment I met her, I had always belonged to Indigo."
"True faerie fruit is the taste of the threshold."
"Tears are bits of your soul. We can’t risk letting them hit the ground."
"Only a shattered promise yields a rich, glittering yolk of a tale."
"Even an illusion can wound. Perhaps more so than anything."
"A sky of azure and a sky of indigo walked hand in hand into the Otherworld, but only one of them came out."
"People like her can remake reality as they so wish, but we are forced to live in the lands they leave behind."
"Only the dead know how to keep secrets."
"The sky doesn't thank anyone for taking notice."
"All marriages possess their own tongue."
"Never apologize for wishing to devour the world whole."
"Every fairy tale has blood flecked on its muzzle."
"The otherworld had denied me its magic."
"Maybe we’re exiled fae sisters... maybe we’re made from the same moonlight."
"The Otherworld was testing us this whole time, Azure."
"I had married a creature crafted of flowers; an illusion fitted over a woman’s shape. But now my eyes must open."
"There is always a peculiar distance to fairy tales."
"Love is presented to us as something that must be as vast as a horizon and just as unreachable."
"Teeth are memory and therefore precious, and worth far more than a dollar."
"I understood how a pair of words can turn to prayer, plea, or prophecy. I could not tell which one we had become."
"This is why fairy tales are dangerous: their words sneak into your veins and travel into the chambers of your heart."
"Sometimes you are lured not by the promise of safety but the safety of knowing that here lies a sure thing."
"Magic was not fair. She and I could share the same soul, but not the same pain."
"Driving made everything seem large and within reach."
"The Otherworld had beheld me in all my grime and sin, and still loved me."
"I knew my answer. I smiled, and she smiled back, and I was Helios in his chariot, pulling the sun behind me so today could become a tomorrow."
"We are two blues, the neat seam of dusk and dawn."
"We were cursed and we were trapped. She by the nightmare of love. And I by the reality of it."
"I would not let one version of my dream trap me."
"We were so young that even our bones still grew, still dreamt, still performed miracles in the daylight."
"You never forget the moment when beauty turns to horror."