Kate Avery Ellison Quotes

He glanced up once, eyes bored. “Please stop talking. I’m trying to eat.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

What about you? What do you do?” I needed to ask questions, draw him out. I needed to find out all the information I could. My voice sounded strong and smooth, but my hands were shaking. I put them in my lap so he couldn’t see.“I prey on innocent villagers and terrify their children,” he said with a nasty smile. “And sometimes when I’m feeling really evil, I read books or paint.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

I laughed under my breath, and it sounded bitter. “Listen to me. What am I talking about, worth it? Is any experience or bit of beauty worth the cost of my life? I know nothing but safety and self-preservation at all costs.”“And yet,” he said softly, “you’re risking everything to help me.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

Strength?” “Safety,” I said. And in that moment I realized that I’d always equated the two in my head, but they weren’t the same thing. Sometimes people were strongest at their most vulnerable, dangerous moments.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

I’d allowed myself to feel love –yes, love– for another person in a way I’d once sworn to myself I never would. I’d become completely vulnerable, and now I’d been torn apart with hurt and catapulted onto a path I might never have taken otherwise. I’d risked my life for an outsider. For a stranger. Worse, I had a feeling I was going to do it again.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

I was blind to the truth. Emotions do that. They make you a fool.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

You're ruining that book! He pointed to the page I'd torn out. That's a perfectly good book! Holding his gaze, I reached down and ripped another page out. I'm making roses. Well, it's my book. Sorry. I tore out another.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

You want to break the curse, I want to break the curse. We don't need to be nice. We need to be effective. Just help me figure it out, and I'll make you a rich woman.

~ Kate Avery Ellison

In answer to a question you asked me not a long ago, a question I didn’t answer at the time…it is worth it. Love is a perilous dance too, you see. And if we stop dancing, we’ll die.Don’t ever stop dancing.

~ Kate Avery Ellison