The Fragile Threads of Power Quotes

“A head gets lost, but a heart knows home.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“But Lila went to Kell’s side. She knelt beside his sleeping body, and whispered something in his ear, and if Tes had been standing farther back, she’d never have heard it. But she did.
“There is nowhere you go,” said the Antari to her prince, “that I cannot follow.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“She sighed in relief. "You came."
Kell stepped into the room, the black ring's cord swinging from his fingers. "You called.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“As far as she was concerned, family had nothing to do with proximity or blood. Family was a chosen thing. A label earned.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“A thing taken by force would always be a pale shadow of something given freely.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“There is nowhere you go,” said the Antari to her prince, “that I cannot follow.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Why didn’t you stay on the ship?” he asked again, because now and then, it was not enough to dance around the truth. He wanted to hear her say it. Even if she did not wear the ring. He wanted to know that she chose to be here, with him.
Lila held his gaze so long he could have counted the shards of light in her good eye. And then, at last, almost grudgingly, she said, “Because the bed would feel empty. Without you in it.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“And that was the madness, the cruelty, that life was fragile, and he had so much to love, and spent all his time mourning the loss before he suffered it.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“To Lila, Kell had always been a pane of glass tilted toward her just so, so that where others saw only colors and streaks, she saw the truth of it. Of him.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“We all don clothes that do not fit, and hope we will grow into them.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“If you only think of the wrong hands magic can fall into, you forget that now and then there are right ones.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Is it possible to have a death wish when you know you cannot die?”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Caring could drown you, if you let it.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Rhy lost the last dregs of his composure, and threw back his head and laughed, and then he was on his back, the night sky sliding in and out of focus.
“I’m going to roll off,” he said, gasping for breath.
“I’ll catch you,” said Kell without so much as a pause.
Rhy’s laughter died away. “I know.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Some people cannot see the need for change until it’s done.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Rhy glanced over and caught his stare. “What are you thinking about?”
“Your brother,” said Alucard, regretting the words as soon as they were out.
Rhy raised a brow. “Should I be jealous?”
He rolled his eyes. “Go to sleep.”
“I knew all that loathing was a farce.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“And then Rhy was there, pushing his lover aside, and flinging his arms around Kell’s shoulders.
“Brother,” said Rhy, holding him tight. And unlike the coat, and all the other trappings of Kell’s old life, this one, at least, still fit.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“We all don clothes that do not fit, and hope we will grow into them. Or at least, grow used to them.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“He tries my patience every day, the king.”
“He sounds maddening.” Rhy’s hand drifted lower, tracing the muscles of Alucard’s stomach. “And yet you stay. You must love him very much.”
Alucard met the king’s gaze. “I do.” He let his weight sink onto Rhy, brought his mouth to his ear. “And he’s very good in bed.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“I have never pretended to be wise. Only old.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Caring could drown you, if you let it. But it could also help you float.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Just because we do not carry on doesn't mean we haven't been. We live a life, we leave a legacy. But the river runs one way and we are carried on it.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“And so what should have been the first trumpets of war had been allowed to quiet once again back into the whispers of strategy.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Brother,” said Rhy, holding him tight. And unlike the coat, and all the other trappings of Kell’s old life, this one, at least, still fit.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“She only got two kinds of looks: appraising, and skeptical. Those who saw her as a woman, and those who saw her as a girl. Both looks made her feel like a sack of grain being weighed, but she hated the latter more, that way it was meant to make her feel small. The fact, sometimes, it did.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Och ans, is farr, ins ol’ach, regh narr. There was no easy way to translate Veskan. It was the kind of language where every word could mean a dozen things, depending on their order and their context. It’s why he’d never managed more than a frail grasp on a handful of phrases. But this one he’d held on to. This one Alucard understood. A head gets lost, but a heart knows home.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“She sighed in relief. 'You came.'
Kell stepped into the room, the black ring's cord swinging from his fingers. 'You called.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“until the sculptor vanished inside her work.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“Your Majesty,” said Lila through gritted teeth, “I mean this with the most respect.” She turned to face Nadiya and said, “Go fuck yourself.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power

“I sometimes wonder if you would have been so hateful, had we lived in a kinder house.”
― Victoria E. Schwab, The Fragile Threads of Power