Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily.

- Rachel Hartman

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.

- Rachel Hartman

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.

- Rachel Hartman

Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no lo…

- Rachel Hartman

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

- Rachel Hartman

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods.

- Rachel Hartman

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

- Rachel Hartman

That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. …

- Rachel Hartman

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

- Rachel Hartman