“She was asleep. In my car.I stood next to the passenger side for a minute, looking down at her. The sun made her skin seem translucent and bloodless. For a moment, it didn't matter why I was falling in love with her. Just that I was.”
―
Tessa Gratton,
Blood Magic
“I held up my hands. 'I thought you could use a punching bag.' See, this is me, the new and improved Nick Pardee, available to girlfriends and crazy people in their time of need.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“By lunchtime, the glitter was flaking off my mask. Three pearls dropped off and rolled down the tiled hallway.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“And just like that she was crying. I felt a little like That Guy who holds a baby at arm's length because he's afraid it's going to pee on him.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“Sometimes we forgive others because it keeps our own hearts whole, not because they deserve it or for any thought of them.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear
“Girl surrounded by flowersTechnicolor kissFor all the night's lengthy hoursI'll miss...” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“Mairwen strokes a finger down his crooked nose. “Survive, and I’ll marry Arthur to trap him here, and you can live with us, because I’m a witch and you’re a saint and we can do whatever we want, and then you can spend the rest of your life seducing him. We’ll fight all the time, but we’ll be happy.” ― Tessa Gratton, Strange Grace
“I grinned, and a burst of shocked laughter shoved out of me. I'd done it! I'd beaten that bitch, and could see again. I'd won. With only my blood.I climbed to my feet, cradling my throbbing hand against my stomach, and looked out over the cemetery.The first real thing I saw was Silla, stumbling toward me. Her hands left scarlet prints on every headstone she touched.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“The sun rises and she approaches the edge. A forest devil, a witch, a young woman, with eyes like a starry night and teeth like cats, and thorny, flowering brambles tangled in her hair, littering white petals behind her. They’re waiting for her. Two of the hearts: one burning, one perfectly in tune. She smiles, lips parted over sharp but not too-sharp teeth. Instead of slowing, she leaps forward. She dives at them, throwing arms around both together. One hisses as some sharp piece of her body slices at his skin, and the other grunts because he catches most of her weight. Neither of them lets go.” ― Tessa Gratton, Strange Grace
“[We] stared at each other. It was intensely surreal. Four people in a country kitchen, plotting bloody magic. With a psycho, body-snatching murderer stalking us through flocks of birds.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“Dreams are sometimes all we have.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun
“When I arrived at the graveyard, Silla and her brother were sitting together snacking on cookies. They both wore jeans and sweaters and had blood on their foreheads. Like a gruesome splotch jerking you out of an otherwise pastoral scene. That happened to be a cemetery. Okay, it was all pretty gruesome.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“There are some consequences so unacceptable we have to fight against them every day.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun
“I looked back at Eric. I hated that his eyes were closed. Like Josephine wasn't really paying attention to me. But she had so many other eyes. Rat eyes. Fox eyes. Crow eyes. "Josephine. Tell me why you want the spell book. Why does any of that matter if all we ever need is blood?""You want to talk philosophy, Silla? Right now?" Eric's eyes snapped open and his fingers twitched.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“We are as strong as the people who love us.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear
“I don't want to be chosen above all things, one thing most of all. I want to be a part of someone's whole.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear
“I know grief, and it is a chasm.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun
“We three just stared. I thought of Macbeth's witches huddled around their cauldron. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags. What is't you do?A deed without a name.We were as quiet as the gravestones around us.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“I held up my hands. 'I thought you could use a punching bag.' See, this is me, the new and improved Nick Pardee, available to girlfriends and crazy people in their time of need.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“By lunchtime, the glitter was flaking off my mask. Three pearls dropped off and rolled down the tiled hallway.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“And just like that she was crying. I felt a little like That Guy who holds a baby at arm's length because he's afraid it's going to pee on him.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“Sometimes we forgive others because it keeps our own hearts whole, not because they deserve it or for any thought of them.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear
“Girl surrounded by flowersTechnicolor kissFor all the night's lengthy hoursI'll miss...” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“Mairwen strokes a finger down his crooked nose. “Survive, and I’ll marry Arthur to trap him here, and you can live with us, because I’m a witch and you’re a saint and we can do whatever we want, and then you can spend the rest of your life seducing him. We’ll fight all the time, but we’ll be happy.” ― Tessa Gratton, Strange Grace
“I grinned, and a burst of shocked laughter shoved out of me. I'd done it! I'd beaten that bitch, and could see again. I'd won. With only my blood.I climbed to my feet, cradling my throbbing hand against my stomach, and looked out over the cemetery.The first real thing I saw was Silla, stumbling toward me. Her hands left scarlet prints on every headstone she touched.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“The sun rises and she approaches the edge. A forest devil, a witch, a young woman, with eyes like a starry night and teeth like cats, and thorny, flowering brambles tangled in her hair, littering white petals behind her. They’re waiting for her. Two of the hearts: one burning, one perfectly in tune. She smiles, lips parted over sharp but not too-sharp teeth. Instead of slowing, she leaps forward. She dives at them, throwing arms around both together. One hisses as some sharp piece of her body slices at his skin, and the other grunts because he catches most of her weight. Neither of them lets go.” ― Tessa Gratton, Strange Grace
“[We] stared at each other. It was intensely surreal. Four people in a country kitchen, plotting bloody magic. With a psycho, body-snatching murderer stalking us through flocks of birds.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“Dreams are sometimes all we have.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun
“When I arrived at the graveyard, Silla and her brother were sitting together snacking on cookies. They both wore jeans and sweaters and had blood on their foreheads. Like a gruesome splotch jerking you out of an otherwise pastoral scene. That happened to be a cemetery. Okay, it was all pretty gruesome.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“There are some consequences so unacceptable we have to fight against them every day.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun
“I looked back at Eric. I hated that his eyes were closed. Like Josephine wasn't really paying attention to me. But she had so many other eyes. Rat eyes. Fox eyes. Crow eyes. "Josephine. Tell me why you want the spell book. Why does any of that matter if all we ever need is blood?""You want to talk philosophy, Silla? Right now?" Eric's eyes snapped open and his fingers twitched.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
“We are as strong as the people who love us.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear
“I don't want to be chosen above all things, one thing most of all. I want to be a part of someone's whole.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Queens of Innis Lear
“I know grief, and it is a chasm.” ― Tessa Gratton, The Lost Sun
“We three just stared. I thought of Macbeth's witches huddled around their cauldron. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags. What is't you do?A deed without a name.We were as quiet as the gravestones around us.” ― Tessa Gratton, Blood Magic
