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“The guard hit Kestrel across the face. I said, what did you give him?You had a warriors heart, even then.Kestrel spat blood. Nothing, she told the guard. She thought of her father, she thought of A...”
“But we dont think too well when we want too much.”
“Throughout my college years, I'd watch my sister squeal every Christmas as she unwrapped another 'Buffy' DVD set. I didn't know much about the series, but I was filled with that obnoxious self-impo...”
“Whether we think of Disney's blonde beauty and her pumpkin carriage or Marissa Meyer's recent recasting of 'Cinderella' as a cyborg in the young adult novel 'Cinder,' we know that there are countle...”
“Of course having a baby derails the writing process for some time. And I will be the first to say that I have essentially no social life, because there's just nothing left after being a mom, profes...”
“Will you come with me?""Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.”
“Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should know it to be her fault whether shed given the order or notand whether she knew or not. Innocent?...”
“She focused on that nothingness, imagined it as ink spilling over everything she could possibly think or feel.”
“She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was to...”
“She’d felt it before, she felt it now: the pull to fall in with him, to fall into him, to lose her sense of self.”
“He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was upon him. Arin ...”
“Arin, you’re not listening. You’re not thinking clearly.”“You’re right. I haven’t been thinking clearly, not for a long time. But I understand now.” Arin pushed his tiles away. His winning hand sca...”
“The guard hit Kestrel across the face. “I said, what did you give him?”You had a warrior’s heart, even then.Kestrel spat blood. “Nothing,” she told the guard. She thought of her father, she thought...”
“But we don’t think too well when we want too much.”
