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“But I cant . . . I cant leave anyone to the darkness.”
“I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.”
“The problem with martyrs is that theyre all dead. What do they have to do with us that are simple enough to still be alive? Should we just give up and want to die because death is better than disho...”
“You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head”
“The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.”
“And you would know so much about women, locked up in your castle.""Locked up with eight wives. And sometimes I make house calls for my bargainers. There's many a lovely woman desperate enough to ba...”
“Ghosts are laid to rest when injustices are righted, when their duties are fulfilled. But my mother's duty is to make me happy so long as I live. So there is not rest for her, and no escape for me....”
“Study the sky but never love it, Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.”
“He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. I wouldnt love you if you were any weaker, he said, and let go of her.”
“He's kissing me and though this is the first time, it feels like recovering a long-forgotten memory. My body seems to say, "Yes, this," and then I'm kissing him back as if I were born to be in his ...”
“I remembered Ignifex's smirk and his confident words: I can wait all I want and still have you. And I thought, Here is one thing he isn't getting. Standing on my toes, I kissed Shade on the lips. ...”
“Rachelle choked on a laugh. “You were always stronger.”“You,” said Amélie, “were always foolish enough to think that mattered.”
“Do you think he would dare half as much for your love as I have?”“No,” she said. “He never could. That’s why I love him.”“You were desperate for me.”“Desperate. Not happy.” For the first time in al...”
“But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.”
“I don’t hate you,” I said, and I almost believed it.”
“The problem with martyrs is that they’re all dead. What do they have to do with us that are simple enough to still be alive? Should we just give up and want to die because death is better than dish...”
“Study the sky but never love it,” Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. “It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.”
“He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. “I wouldn’t love you if you were any weaker,” he said, and let go of her.”
