38 quotes found
“What exactly does a friend do?”
“Weakness is an irresistible lure.”
“What would you sacrifice for power?”
“The price of living seems to always be death.”
“There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.”
“A true conversion is always only between a man and God.”
“On our wedding night," she said, "I will cut out your tongue and swallow it. Then both tongues that spoke our marriage vows will belong to me, and I will be wed only to myself. You will most likely...”
“Some victories are merely defeat wearing the wrong clothing”
“I cannot afford to lose you, too""You cannot lose something you do not own. Take me with you”
“Belief is not weakness. Faith is the greatest strength we can have.”
“So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?”
“But there are many ways to be powerful. There is power in stillness. There is power in watching, waiting, saying the right thing at the right time to the right person. There is power in being a wom...”
“Religion was a means to an end. She had seen it wielded as a weapon. If she needed to use it, she would, but she would never allow herself to be used by it.”
“Lada had a sense for power--the fine threads that connected everyone around her, the way those threads could be pulled, tightened, wrapped around someone until they cut off the blood supply.Or snap...”
“Fire burned in her heart, and her wounded soul spread out, casting a shadow like wings across her country.”
“Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. Nothing holds me here.”
“Those same fists had always defied everything expected of her.”
“I am yours, she whispered. The words cut like knives, barely out of her mouth before he stole them, sealing them with his own lips.”
“The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.”
“People respond to kindness. They trust a smile more than a promise that you will leave them choking on their own blood.”
“None of them are real to me. He paused again, placing a hand flat against the door. You are the only real thing in my life.Radu gasped with the sheer physical pain the words sent through him. But t...”
