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“He looked at me with a hundred stories lit behind his eyes.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“I have thought about you every single day since that day. Maybe every hour. I've counted days to go back to the island, and I pushed us into storms I shouldn't have because I didn't want to not be there when you woke up. I didn't want you to wait for me. Ever. Or to think I wasn't coming back." He paused. "I struck the deal with Saint because I wanted the ship, but I kept it because of you. When you got off the Marigold in Ceros and I didn't know if I would ever see you again, I thought . . . I felt like I couldn't breathe.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“What he was saying-the things he told me-was his way of showing me he trusted me. It was also his way of giving me the match. If I wanted to, I could burn him down. But if we were going to do this, I would have to be his safe harbor and he would have to be mine.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“Nothing was what it seemed. Every truth was twisted. Every lie carefully constructed.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“You want something in this life?" She came to stand over me. "You take it, Fable.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“She was the sun and the sea and the moon in one. She was the north star that pulled us to the shore.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“We both know that surviving means sometimes doing things that haunt you.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“Don't draw attention to yourself. It's better to be no one than to be someone in this city.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“I can’t decide if I like you or if I think you’re stupid.” She laughed.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“It was a map.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“If it hadn't been my prison, I might even think it was beautiful.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“There was something knowing in the way he looked at me. Something that pulled at the knots in the net of lies we’d both told.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“This time, I left Saint behind.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“What he was saying—the things he told me—was his way of showing me he trusted me. It was also his way of giving me the match. If I wanted to, I could burn him down. But if we were going to do this, I would have to be his safe harbor and he would have to be mine.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“I dropped my eyes, the sudden flush in my cheeks warming my skin.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“And no matter where I went, I’d never get home. Because home was a ship that was at the bottom of the sea, where my mother’s bones lay sleeping.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“It wasn't the kind of kiss that lovers shared, but there were a hundred secrets in the way that they looked at each other.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“Down here, in the deep, with the Marigold floating above, it was quiet. No Saint or Zola or Jeval. No secrets or lies or half-truths. Down here, we were only two mortals in an upside-down world.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“And I think I’ve loved you since the first time we anchored in Jeval.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“I left you there because I have never loved anything in my life like I love you. Not Isolde. Not the trade. Nothing.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“We were salt and sand and sea and storm.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“That I’d loved him with the same fire that I’d hated him. That if anything happened to Saint, a part of me would be taken with him.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“It was one long series of tragically beautiful knots that bound us together.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“Because you and I have cursed ourselves, Fable. We will always have something to lose. I knew it that day in Tempest Snare when I kissed you. I knew it in Dern when I told you that I loved you.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“I didn’t plan to be a father. I didn’t want to be one. But the first time I held you in my hands, you were so small. I had never been so terrified of anything in my life. I feel like I’ve barely slept since the night you were born.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“The answer to that question is always going to be the same. It doesn’t matter what happens.” His hands tightened on me. “You and me.”
The words sounded like vows. But there was grief that bloomed in my chest as he spoke them, like an incantation that gave flesh to bones.
My voice deepened, waiting for his mouth to touch mine.
“How long can you live like that?”
His lips parted and the kiss was deep, drawing the air from the room, and the word was broken in his throat. “Forever.”
― Adrienne young , Namesake

“When I turned to look at West, that same starlight glinted in his eyes. I found his hand and held it to my cheek, remembering the first time I’d seen him on the docks. The first time I’d seen him smile. The first time I’d seen his darkness and every time he’d seen mine.
We were salt and sand and sea and storm.
We were made in the Narrows.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“There was no way to undo it. No amount of coin or power could turn time back to that night in Tempest Snare, or the day Isolde showed up, asking for a place on Saint’s crew. It was one long series of tragically beautiful knots that bound us together.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“The first time I’d seen his darkness and every time he’d seen mine. We were salt and sand and sea and storm.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake

“Now I was the girl who’d found her own way. And I also had something to lose.”
― Adrienne Young, Namesake