And what god do you serve, then? Whichever will grant me good fortune. I don’t think gods work that way. I don’t think I care.
You cannot worry about what came before or what happens next, what has been lost or what you might gain. There is only this moment.
You can’t spend his money if you’re dead. I’ll acquire expensive habits in the afterlife. There’s a difference between confidence and arrogance.
He doesn’t like to feel weak said Hanne. No one does. But he can’t just be kind when he’s feeling strong.
But hope rises like water trapped by a dam, higher and higher, in increments that mean nothing until you face the flood.
A thousand desperate wishes have been spoken on these shores, and in the end they were all the same: Make me someone new.
She had not been much to look at in her youth, and she knew well that only courage is required for an adventure.
Mal snickered."What's so funny?""I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.
I may not have been completely honest about that.""You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified.
Even now, a boy will smile at me on the street, or Jesper will put his arm around my waist, and I feel like I’m going to vanish. I live in fear that I’ll see one of her—one of my—clients on the street. For a long time, I thought I recognized them.
I'm nothing like you," said the boy, his blue eyes blazing. Matthias saw the anger there, the rage. He knew it so well. But he was still surprised when he heard the shot.
I will tell you a story, one I used to tell to a little boy with dark hair. A silent boy who rarely laughs, who listened more closely than I realized. A boy who had a name and not a title
It's the people who never learn the wordimpossiblewho make history, because they're the ones who keep trying.
Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.
Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.
The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever.
He was going tobreak my legs,” she said, her chin held high, the barest quaver in her voice. “Would you have come for me then, Kaz? When I couldn’t scale a wall or walk a tightrope? When I wasn’t the Wraith anymore?”Dirtyhands would not. The boy who could
I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him.
I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.
It's not natural for women to fight.""It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.
