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“Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in.”
“The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.”
“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things-if love can ever be called that.”
“Do you think I could have come to you again and again, if you had been less alone?You called me and I answered”
“Abruptly, Adrik snarled, 'I'm glad Sergei's dead. I'm just sorry I didn't get to wring his neck myself.''You'd need two hands for that,' said”
“I was just a girl again, but this girl didnt owe her strength to fate or chance or a grand destiny. Id been born with my power; the rest Id earned.”
“I just know there's no way to live without pain - no matter how long or short your life is. People let you down. You get hurt and do damage in return.”
“Good luck, Oretsev. Find the firebird, and when this is over, I'll see you well rewarded. A farmhouse in Udova. A dacha near the city. Whatever you want.""I don't need any of that. Just..." He drop...”
“I've always known that whatever marriage I made would be political. It would be about power, not love. But we might get lucky. In time, we might have both.''Or the third amplifier will turn me into...”
“I was done with hesitation. It wasn't just that we'd run out of options, or that so much was riding on the firebird's power. I'd simply grown ruthless enough or selfish enough to take another creat...”
“They wanted a Grisha queen. Mal wanted a commoner queen. And what did I want? Peace for Ravka. A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. An end to the guilt and dread that I woke to every morn...”
“I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title”
“Despise your heart. I wanted to. I didn't want to grieve anymore, to feel loss or guilt, or worry. I wanted to be hard, calculating. I wanted to be fearless.”
“I tilted my head back, breathing deeply. It was a clear, moonless night, and after those long months underground, the sight of all that sky was dizzying. And so many starsa glittering, tangled mass...”
“Mal was quiet for a long moment. Then he said, Im not sure who my first kill was. We were hunting the stag when we ran into a Fjerdan patrol on the northern border. I dont think the fight lasted mo...”
“(...)And what did I want? (...)A chance to sleep easy in my bed without fear. (...) There were old wants too, to be loved for who I was, not what I could do, to lie in a meadow with a boy's arms ar...”
“That first winter, when it was time for her friends to leave, the girl ventured out into the show to say goodbye, and the stunning raven-haired Squaller handed her another gift. "A blue kefta," sai...”
“And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the...”
