Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground.
You didn’t have to go to the fireworks with him. Or – or let him fondle you.””Fondle?” Raisa raised her eyebrows, “When did I mention fondling?
The northern soldiers are just men,” Hal told the men in his command. “And women,” he amended. “When you cut them, they bleed, just like us.
Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?
Knowledge is power. In the wrong hands, knowledge is trouble.
You touch me again, you arrogant Ardenine swine, and I swear on the blood of Hanalea the warrior, I will geld you. Do you understand?
Allison was at full strength when it came to one thing:attitude.
Surround yourselves with trustworthy people. If you don’t, all the weaponry and tactics in the world can’t save you.
His father always treated him as if he were capable of great things. Which made him want to accomplish great things.
Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead.”Don’t you die. don’t you dare. I forbid it.” As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.
It’s true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.
Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn’t much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.
Even if the job you’re assigned is not to your liking, a Matelon will see it done.
Just tell me you don’t love me, and I’ll let the matter drop.””What?””What I said. Just say, ‘Rai, I don’t love you and I never will’. It’s that simple.””Raisa, this is getting us nowhere.””Say it!
How dare you?’ Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. ‘How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?”I have not yet made any accusations,’ Willo said. ‘Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.
How dare you?’ Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. ‘How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?”I have not yet made any accusations,’ Willo said. ‘Perhaps it is your own guilt clamoring in your ears.
Come on! We’ve had too many dead heroes. Being a coward increases your odds of survival-that’s my motto. I’m counting on bieng faster than them.
You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.
Commander! Sir! Wake up!”Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing he’d respond so he could go back to sleep – until he remembered that he was the commander.
The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.
Leesha knew from experience that when parents don’t parent, kids grow up fast.
She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.
Fitch is on his way. He’s coming after he blows up some wizards.
Do you think I’m stupid? Only a fool would use a fast-acting poison on a target with a taster. The taster goes down before the king gets it into his system.” Lila blinked at him, as if surprised by this display of logic.
Emma was horrified and transfixed at the same time. She was watching Jonah Kinlock doing what he did best. There was a certain macabre beauty in watching form and function wedded together. In Jonah’s case, a dance of beauty and death.
I continueto believe in miracles. But i know that miracles come to thosewho work very hard
I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don’t think so much.
Plus he was naturally lucky at cards. As Mam had always said, lucky at cards, or lucky at life. One or the other. Not both.
Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixure of both.
History,’ Mari muttered, as if she’d overheard his thoughts. ‘Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?’ ‘So hopefully we get smarter and don’t make the same mistakes again.
Just remember who you are… The world will try to change you into someone else. Don’t let them. That’s the best advice anyone can give you.
If someone grabs you in the street, hit hard and fast, because you may not get a second chance.