“Remember when we told each other no distractions?Yes. He runs a blazing finger over my earrings, touching each one in turn.Distract me.”

“Thank you, I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both.You want to thank me, Barrow? she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. Then keep your word. And let t...”

“In the palace, during my imprisonment, I learned that Maven had been made by his mother, formed into the monster he became. There is nothing on earth that can change him or what she did. But Cal wa...”

“In what life can I trust anything out of your mouth ever again?”

“Cameron, my heart is quite literally in this,”

“As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.”

“Weakness is acceptable, forgivable, around family. But not when lives and wars hang in the balance.”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”

“Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.”