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“Mind your mettle, Corrick."
My smile Widens. "Mind Yours.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Defend the Dawn

“One of my favorite things about the brothers is their endearing closeness.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Defend the Dawn

“Corrick is terrible and wonderful and aggravating and inspiring, and somehow he manages all of it, all at once.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Defend the Dawn

“I don't want fear and anger to be my legacy. I want to be... better.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Defend the Dawn

“I am always surprised to discover that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“We are all dealt a hand at birth. A good hand can ultimately lose - just as a poor hand can win - but we must all play the cards the fate deals. The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Not all scars can be seen, my lady.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Words spoken in the dark in the middle of the night always feel so much heavier than they would at any other time.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Rhen,” she calls after me.
I pause in the doorway and face her.
“I’m not going to fall in love with you,” she says.
Her words are not a surprise. I sigh.
“You won’t be the first.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Failure isn’t absolute.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“This early in the season, the other girls would sit by the hearth and gaze at me over crystal goblets, while I’d pour wine and tell stories with just enough devilishness to make them blush. If I put a crystal goblet in this one’s hand, she’d likely smash it and use the shards to cut me.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“I didn’t realize it was possible to be strong and yielding at the same time.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“I do not understand how she can fill me with such hope and fear simultaneously. I pull her hand to my chest and lean in to her, until we share breath. My lips brush across hers.
It is barely a kiss, but she is somehow closer to me, her body a pool of warmth against mine.
I want so desperately to turn it into more, to see where this blossoming attraction will lead.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“We all make mistakes. You slept with her without any intention of a relationship. Who cares? You’re not the first man to do it. And she’s not innocent! She sought you out because of who you are.” Her jaw is clenched. “I hope she does come here. I hope she comes to this room. Because I don’t care what I have to do. I’m going to end her.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“It is not the moment of passing that is most important. It is all the moments that came before.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Are you prepared to die, Grey?" I demand. "Because that is all that exists at the end of this path. I am sure of it. This was never a curse to be broken. This is a death sentence. The true curse has been the thought that we might find escape.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Have you not figured it out yet? The curse torments us all.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“I was born this way and I'm going to die this way, so teach me to work around it.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Never offer blindly, my lady. Not for your family. Not even for yourself.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“You have an unusual definition of luck."
She stiffens. "Spoken like someone who lives in a castle with an endless supply of food and wine, but calls himself cursed.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Just because you couldn't save everyone doesn't mean you didn't save anyone.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Choices are never easy. There are good and bad options, but the most dangerous is to not make any choice at all.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“You said that not every problem can be solved by the end of a sword. I have carried those words with me for days... Since you made me realize that I am no longer a weapon to be wielded by another.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“Easy," he growls. "Choices are never easy. There are good and bad options, but the most dangerous is to not make any choice at all.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“Fear makes people act in ways we'd never expect.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“... I understand his desperation to find the heir. This has nothing to do with his throne at all...

Rhen is afraid. Not of losing his throne, but afraid of the magic. Of what it might do to him, and to Emberfall.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“An eternity at Prince Rhen's side, surviving his monster, surviving Lilith, surviving as a guardsman, and I'm going to die in the leaves beside a campfire because I was stupid .”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“He wasn’t your friend, Grey. He had an eternity to be your friend, and he wasn’t. Even when you were dragged back to that castle, even after everything, he treated you like a criminal.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“He's so intense, but I stand my ground. "Your people will...
"I am not only talking about my people now," he snaps. "I am talking about me."

The words feel like a slap. I stare at him, suddenly breathless "You think I betrayed you."

He says nothing.

And the worst part is, he's not wrong either. I was acting on emotion. I wasn't thinking about how anyone would perceive my actions. I spent months thinking Grey was dead, and after seeing what Rhen was willing to do in the courtyard, I wasn't going to wait around for him to up the ante.

My throat tightens. I turn to look out over the courtyard again, hoping the breeze will drag my tears away. "He was trapped with you for ... ever," I say. "Forever, Rhen. "How could you do that to him?"

Rhen is quiet for a moment. "He was your friend, too, my lady. I was not the only one he ran from."

I remember a moment, in the courtyard, when Rhen was still a monster. When Lilith was going to kill me, and Grey got on his knees and offered himself to spare me.

I remember a moment in Washington, DC, when Grey was near death because Rhen had attacked him, and he came to me for help. Not anyone in Emberfall. To me.

He could have told me his secret. I would have helped him. He chose not to. To protect me?

Or to protect himself?

Both?

We once spoke of my duty to bleed so he does not.

Oh, Grey.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken

“You are not a weapon, Grey.” “I can be.” His hand lifts from my waist to brush a lock of hair from my cheek. “But you are by far more dangerous.” I can hardly think with his fingers tracing a line down the side of my face. “Ah, yes, the most dangerous person at the party is always the girl sitting alone with a book.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Heart So Fierce and Broken