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 arm...
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. It w...
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.
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.
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. I...
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 barga...
The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for 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 dishono...
You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head
I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.
Almost immediately, I found the red door into the library. I opened it idly- and the breath stopped in my throat. It was the same room I remembered: the shelves, the lion-footed table, the white bass-...
I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.
She dared to cry? On this day of all days? I was the one who would be married at sunset, and I hadn't let myself cry in five years. There was ice in my lungs and in my heart. I was floating. I was swe...
I don’t hate you,” I said, and I almost believed it.
But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.
His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.
I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done
I never thought that freedom would feel so much like grief.
With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing,how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.
There are a lot of things I want," I say quietly and deliberately. "But I think I will keep what I have.
