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“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“In darkness, we are naked. Our truest selves. Night is when fear comes to us at its fullest, when we have no way to fight it," Ead continued. "It will do everything it can to seep inside you. Sometimes it may succeed - but never think that you are the night.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“My evening star. If the sun burned out tomorrow, your flame would light the world.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Eadaz,' Aralaq said.
'Yes?'
'Do not follow stupid birds into dark places again.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Never apologize for loving someone. Even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“My name is Kiva Meridan, and I claim her sentence as my own.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“She’d never held much of an interest in art, but looking at him now, her fingers itched for some paint, for some charcoal, for anything that could capture his near-perfect angles.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“Mother is dead.
I'm on my way to Vallenia.
It's time to reclaim our kingdom.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“But when it became an addiction, I knew I had to stop. I recognized the signs once I started craving the pain, the rush of endorfins that broke through the all-consuming numbness I felt. And I knew it wasn't healthy, knew I wouldn't be able to help anyone else if I didn't first help myself.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“I l-l-love you, K-Kiva,” Tipp kept whispering, his voice fading more, as if he’d only been holding on long enough to see her one last time. “Thank y-you . . . f-f-for everything.”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“I'm not sure if I was punishing myself for hurting others or if I thought that, by sharing in their pain, I was standing with them, even if they don't know, and would never know”
― Lynette Noni, The Prison Healer

“You say you became the darkness, that it consumed you,” he said, his cobalt eyes soft on hers, “but I call bull on that. I’ve never met anyone who shines as brightly as you do.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Only fools find their happiness in others.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Trust is the first ingredient in a recipe for betrayal.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Our scars define us,” Maddis said quietly, the tip of her finger tracing the three slashed lines. “They tell a story of courage and survival. They tell of who we are at our deepest being, of the challenges we’ve faced and overcome.” Whispering now, she patted Kiva’s hand and finished, “Not all scars are as visible as this. I daresay you have many more on the inside. But never forget that every scar is beautiful. And you should never, ever, be ashamed of them.”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“Kiva has spent over half her life locked in a nightmare. The last thing I want is to make her feel like she’s trapped in another kind of cage”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“What did your brother and sister—the Viper and the Jackal—want?”
― Lynette Noni, The Gilded Cage

“We can look at the darkness and let it consume us, or we can recognize that it’s only temporary, trusting that once it passes, the light will return,”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Small steps are still steps.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“What happens now?"
"Now, we dream.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“For anyone who has ever wanted to give up but chose to keep going, to keep trying, to keep hoping to keep surviving: this book is for us.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“We’re in this together, Sunshine. You and me. Got it?”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“I wish you all the best, Kiva Corentine. Your future is as bright as the stars.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“You knew me better than I knew myself. I was dead for ten years and you breathed life back into me. You saved me. You freed me. You made me. And in showing me who you were, in sharing your family and your kingdom and your life with me, in sharing your heart with me, you gave me strength to carve my own path. -Kiva Correntine”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“Instead, she attempted to piece together her heart, knowing it was impossible — because it had just walked away.”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“The moon is smiling. We have to smile with it”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor

“There's no point in living in what-ifs. Don't waste energy fearing problems that don't yet exist”
― Lynette Noni, The Blood Traitor